Front page, NYTimes, Thursday Nov. 7, 2013: Scientists have been studying babies' eyes from earliest infancy to detect signs of impending autism.
Not even on the back page of any paper: By engaging the eyes of a newborn and equating eye contact with any other kind of activity, like singing, the child learns a depth of empathy that scientists can't begin to figure out.
By the time the child is a year old it is already too distracted to initiate this kind of focus. Want your child to be musical? Give me a call the day he or she is born. I'll show you how to do it.
Multi-tasking parent faces will not do.
