Sensation at Kaiser

Yesterday I had to take my baby to her 2month well baby visit at Kaiser. This is generally not a pleasant experience for me. I find that the medical establishment is not sensitive to the development of children in general. And I see that medical establishment as embodying most of the confusion and misunderstanding that the world has about how children grow and learn, and what well being is really all about for the family. But then this happened…

After any Kaiser appointment they print you an “after visit summary” that has growth charts and general info about baby care, development, etc. This morning I was reading through that document and was pleasantly surprised to read something that made me think, maybe there is hope that the rest of the world is finally catching on. I mean you can’t get more mainstream then your child’s well baby after visit summery from Kaiser Permanente. But it said right there under the “Normal Development for 2 month olds” section, “Cannot conceive of an object if it cannot be sensed.” Holy s#@t, I mean wow!

In that one statement lies the key to BodyBeing children (ages 0-7), sensation, it is all about sensation. The interesting thing is the language they chose, “cannot conceive of an object” they are saying that if the baby can’t sense it, it does not exist for them. If every Kaiser parent read that and understood it, oh how the world would change. I mean really understood it. BodyBeing children perceive their world through the “language” of sensation. They create sensation based maps of their world, if something is not sensed it does not go on the map, it is not part of the child’s world, simple as that. If everyone recognized this, paid attention to the sensations they project into the world, children would be nourished physically and psychologically beyond measure and the ripple effect would be incredible. May it be so.