My 17 month old daughter has started rolling her eyes during moments of frustration or when she is annoyed with me or my husband. There’s no way, at 17 months old, that that is intentional, I imagine it’s more instinctual. And, tbh, when I find myself suppressing an eye roll of my own, it feels like I’m fighting a natural urge. Maybe I’m just dramatic?? Lol
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Rolling one’s eyes might well be instinctual. It is known by neuroscience practitioners that a subject rolls their eyes up in a micro movement when accessing imagination and down when accessing memories.
It could well be that a baby/child, who upon hearing something that they disagree with and rolls their eyes up, could be accessing their projected imagination. They might be registering a cognitive dissonance between what they hopefully imagined would be the outcome and comparing it to what they are disappointedly being told.
You sound like another victim that underestimates children 🙂 They literally play on “they think I’m too dumb for that” card. So when you think they are not smart enough to do something, they are not only actually smart enough to do that, they are smart enough to know, thay you think they are not smart enough to do that. This is where they really get you.
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