babies are naturally able to swim hello they just spent nine moths in amiotic fluid this is instinctive so no, parent is not shitty, parent is re-enforcing baby’s natural instinctive behaviour.
parent is good for doing this because parent is basically saying “yes the behaviours you were born with are great!”
Yup, if babies are ‘taught’ (allowed) to swim before they are six weeks old, they never lose the instincts they were born with that lets them hold their head above water and hold their breath when they need to. SCIENCE, man.
What’s really cool is, humans are the only primates known to have this instinct at birth. Other ape babies would just freak out and drown. So I don’t think it comes from being in amniotic fluid for 9 months (since it’s not like they have room to actually swim in there). It’s been speculated that humans evolved in the ocean at some point, which is a really cool theory that I recommend checking out.
ITS BECAUSE WE EVOLVED FROM MERMAIDS
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We didn’t evolve from mermaids – we were evolving INTO MERMAIDS… I do subscribe to the theory that humans were on their way to becoming an aquatic mammal but some ice age (or something like that) interrupted that transition so we are kind of in between now. There are too many things about humans that match other marine mammals that other primates do not have or exhibit.
- webbing
- blubber
- relative hairlessness
- instinctive swimming
- larger cranium
- shape of the nose
(Just a few examples)
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