Gemini

I love Geminis.  Both of them.  And rest assured, they’re always two for the price of one.

The Gemini mum is a thinker.  She will know more about cognitive development and neural development than any of the other mums.  She’s the mum that will have one of those black & white mobile things – in a Chinese red baby room.  Gemini mums do things their own way, thank you very much.

“The Philosophical Baby” is a perfect gift for a cerebral Gemini, pair it up with a black & white mobile and tickets to the symphony and you’ll have yourself a fantastic gift.  A quick synopsis from 3QuarksDaily:

“Within developmental psychology, Gopnik is perhaps best known for promoting (with Henry Wellman, Andrew Meltzoff and others) the “theory theory”—the idea that children construct implicit causal models of the world (theories) using the same psychological mechanisms that scientists use to construct explicit scientific theories. In other words, children are like little scientists—or, as Gopnik prefers to put it, scientists are like big children. The focus in this book is broader. Gopnik argues that although young children’s thinking may seem illogical and their play functionless, their imagination and exploration actually reflect the operation of the same powerful causal learning mechanisms that enable our uniquely human achievements in areas such as science or art.”

The Gemini mum, and babe, are thinkers…so keep Rodin in mind when you are picking a gift for either.

Or, all four of them.