At or around 8 months, parents may begin to notice that their baby is actively searching for something, they have hidden from their child. This developmental milestone is known as object permanence and is the ability for babies to understand that even though an object is hidden, it still exits. At JR's eight month visit, he demonstrated that out of sight does not mean out of mind. Mom sat on the floor, showed JR a hand puppet and made it disappear behind her back. With inflection in her voice, Mom said, "Uh-oh! Where did it go?" Wonder and curiosity took over as JR leaned forward and quickly crawled, to look for the puppet behind Mom's back. He grabbed it, gave it to Mom and the games began! The intellectual milestone of object permanence had been achieved!
JNM
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