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A time before smiles?

A time before smiles? This is the first chapter from my book The Laughing Baby, coming soon from Unbound. When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was beginning of fairies — Peter Pan, JM

TEDx Bratislava July 2017

TEDx Bratislava July 2017

My talk at TEDx Bratislava, Slovakia, July 2017. I wish they had titled it "Life Lessons from Laughing Babies."

The Joys of Toys - Cheltenham Science Festival 2017

The Joys of Toys - Cheltenham Science Festival 2017

The Cheltenham Science Festival asked Dr Nathalia Gjersoe and I to put on a science show for an audience of babies. We gave each baby their own small toybox and explained what they learn from toys. It was delightful chaos Yummy Toys Every parent knows that anything that babies get

We created a song that makes babies happy

We created a song that makes babies happy

Plenty of research has looked at adults’ emotional responses to music. But research with babies is more piecemeal and eclectic, perhaps reflecting the difficulty of asking them what they like. Researchers know that babies can hear and remember music even while they are still in the womb. And one curious

Imogen Heap and Caspar Addyman playing The Happy Song to the babies who helped create it.

Music to make babies laugh

Music to make babies laugh How two psychologists and an army of babies helped Grammy winner Imogen Heap to write her new happy song for babies. Being a new parent is an emotional rollercoaster. It is an even wilder ride for a baby. Baby experts often focus on coping with

12 lessons in happiness you can learn from laughing babies

12 lessons in happiness you can learn from laughing babies Morning Gloryvilleguest blog post My job is to study baby laughter. (Yes, really!) I want to understand how babies cope with life. Arriving totally unprepared in a completely alien world is overwhelming. If you couldn’t laugh, you’d cry.

The Laughing Baby

When I ran my survey of baby laughter over a thousand parents responded and nearly a hundred sent in videos. I have enough laughing babies to fill a book. So that's what I am doing.. The Laughing Baby book is about the science of infant learning and why

Laughter makes the impossible possible. Just ask a baby.

Laughter makes the impossible possible. Just ask a baby. Laughter makes life worth living. It makes impossible situations possible. Just ask a baby. Imagine the scenario; You have just been dropped on a completely alien planet. You know nothing about this place, about its people or its language, its customs

The Sound of Happy

Goldsmiths last October I gave a talk to my new department about my research with laughing babies. Straight afterwards Prof. Lauren Stewart came up to me and suggested we collaborate on something. Lauren is a professor of the psychology of music and was interested in how babies respond to music.

Babies are scientists. What about kids?

Source: http://www.nerdybaby.com/every-baby-knows-the-scientific-method-mini-poster-11x17 I Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Natural Scientists

Maisey Whitehead and babies during performance of Shake, Rattle and Roll 2016

How to take your first steps in baby science or baby theatre

How to take your first steps in baby science or baby theatre The “Baby Lab” at Polka theatre gets ready to welcome an audience of 6–18 month old babies. Imagine for a moment that you wanted create a piece of theatre to entertain babies or a scientific experiment to

Hope..

Qayyum - 5 months Qayyum and his daddy, Sharul, cheer each other up. As Shahrul says "After a whole busy day at work, "The Big Lion" (dad) feel much better when his "Little Monster" (son) laugh out loud." Hugo - 14 months Seems like

Why playing peekaboo with babies is a very serious matter - Aeon Opinions

Why playing peekaboo with babies is a very serious matter - Aeon Opinions

Spend any time with a baby and, assuming that they’re fed, clean and warm, they will put most of their effort into stealing your heart. Babies are gleeful, cheerful, charismatic and gregarious – inherent comedic qualities that ensure babies give cats a good run for their money in funny YouTube

The best way to make a baby laugh is to take her seriously.

Tickling babies toes for science..

I've just started a new job in the Infant Lab at Goldsmiths, University of London. I am happy to report that my new boss tickles babies too. For science! Prof. Andy Bremner is interested in how babies learn about their bodies and their world. His most recent study

Ukrainian infant art at Burning Man.

I love art, I love babies and I love the Burning Man festival that takes place every summer in the Nevada desert. So I was sorry I wasn't there this year to see this sculpture: Ukrainian sculptor, blacksmith, and designer Alexander Milov has produced a large wire-frame sculpture

Your babies #034: Prince gets his first haircut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7y-iRWz2PI There isn't much laughter in this video of 2 year old Prince getting his first ever haircut. But it is absolutely lovely. So I am sharing it anyway :) Thanks to Prince and his dad KJ.

SMBC does academic babies..

Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Your babies #033: Jaxton being tickled

The most popular post on this blog is the one that asks 'Should we tickle babies?' A lot of adults don't like being tickled and babies can't easily defend themselves. Perhaps we shouldn't do it. Well, as this video of 9 month

Your Babies #032: 3 month old Callan cries and laughs on demand

In several years of running the Baby Laughter project, I've been sent some wonderful and remarkable videos of laughing babies. This video of three month old Callan is one of the best ever. Our research into baby laughter asks two simple questions; what makes babies laugh and why

Caspar hosting @RealScientists twitter account all week.

<!--[CDATA[<blockquote>Fans of baby science and laughing babies should subscribe to the <a href="https://twitter.com/realscientists">RealScientists</a> twitter account. Every week a different scientist takes over to explain their work and show you what it is

Tom Fletcher makes his son Buzz giggle delightedly

I don't know who Tom Fletcher is but he has blue hair and makes babies laugh so what's not to love?

My talk for Birkbeck Science week 2015

The surprisingly serious science of laughing babiesCaspar Addyman, Birkbeck Babylab Update: There were lots of other great talks in Birkbeck Science week. You can find links to them here. I particularly recommend Katarina Begus' talk about the importance of curiosity to babies http://www.bbk.ac.uk/science/about-us/

Your Babies #031: A marvellous laugh & marvellous hair

This is baby Ben at six months old. He's laughing at a teddy bear that was moving around in front of him. The video was sent in by his mum Emily. Thanks to Emily and Ben.

Baby's best friend..

Many of the videos submitted to the Baby Laughter project suggests that babies find dogs much more funny than cats. But perhaps not this baby... And does the beagle feel guilty for stealing the baby's toy or is just trying to get it to play fetch like this