Another interesting CRACKED article

This article doesn't really tell me much about what I can do to make my baby the best baby ever, but it does have some interesting things that I can look for so that I'm not surprised when baby Maze grows up to be a sociopath.

Six things science can predict about you in infancy

For those of you who don't want to read it all, here is the summary:

1. 4-year-olds who can handle delayed gratification grow up to be more successful adults. This was tested by leaving kids with candy on a table and telling them that if they wait 15 minutes, they will get two pieces instead of one. Kids who waited the 15 minutes grew up to be more successful in post tests.

2. Babies who are fed when they want to be fed grow up to be smarter than babies who are fed on a schedule.  Basically if you are attentive to your baby's needs the baby will have an higher IQ later in life. I think I went over this in previous blogs.

3. This one was weird: a baby who snores is more likely to grow up to be an ill behaved child. They think it has to do with the amount of oxygen vs CO2 that gets to the baby's brain while sleeping. Creepy. I wonder if there is a way to help the baby!

4. Babies with low birth weight tend to do worse on exams when they grow up. How strange.

5. Moody toddlers are more likely to grow up to have a gambling problem.  They watched kids for 90 mins and took notes. At age 21 and 32 they checked back in with them to see how life was going and the wild kids were 2x as likely to be gamblers. How weird.

6. Babies who don't exhibit normal fear responses are more likely to be criminals.

So there you go. My take away from this is to feed my baby on demand (already planning to do that) and to try to make sure to intervene if baby Maze is a snorer. Not much else you can do about the other things, as far as I can tell.