Sychrony and immitation

When I read the section about sychrony in parent and infants I thought it was neat that even though infants imitate adults, that adults imitate the infants first usually. This is a way of connecting and boding between the parent and infant. Imitating each other is not just a form of communication or learning, but a way to feel loved and warmth from each other also. I often hear moms talking to their infants and the infant will then at the same time communicate back. You can tell that there is deep boding going on and that the infant is feeling close to their caregiver. I feel that it is very important to start to communicate like this to infants as soon as possible to feed this sense of nurturing. I also thought it was interesting in this section that adults rarely ever smile at infants until they smile back at them. I thought this would be the opposite way around, which gets me thinking that infants may have an innate sense to make facial expressions. I believe the timing of facial expressions such as smiling may be learned but that babies naturally start to smile when they are happy without learning from an adult first. Another interesting thing is the use of the still face technique how it shows that babies are disturbed by their parents lack of emotion in their facial feautres. This demonstrates that babies can pick up and sense when something is wrong just by reading someones facial expressions.