The smile is a communication channel that connects both the sender and the recipient. Learning to smile is an innate mechanism that evolves during the growth of the child and perfected through, especially at the attachment bond that is established, first with his mother and later with the people who revolve around your child.

The first comes from knowing smile, rises during sleep, and even if the child establishes a visual relationship with the mother through which sends and receives signals, has not yet abandoned that state of "psychological non-differentiation" that keeps him at a distance from reality as we know it.

Therefore, we can say that the first real smile of the child, according to the research of psychoanalytic Mahler, is given to parents about three months of the infant. The phase "normal autism" gives way to a more knowledgeable and dynamic phase, in which the child begins to explore himself and the people who live around him and he can prove his excitement through his smile, returning the gesture that is lived from as small as a reward, a reward, an encouragement to do more.

The smile is the non-verbal language that flows between the child and a reality that is gradually consolidating, capturing nuances and even the small cunning little use to get what they want so much. It is important that the child is encouraged in this game: smile-response (as defined by Spitz) because it is the only way through which parents can appreciate his emotional state: serenity, happiness, joy as, conversely, there is a plant that is nothing but a symptom of anxiety, hunger, physical pain and any other needs that the child asks that he be satisfied.

Beyond any scientific or psychological the first smile of her child is nothing but a window through which parents face in order to enjoy the magnificence that grow in the heart of your child. Children with the innocence of their age and the serenity of their condition to their loved ones give satisfaction and joy that can be difficult to grasp in any other way along the path of life.

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Catherine Armentano

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