If there is one thing that guys excel at, it is play. There are huge differences in how men and women play with babies. A father’s play with a baby is more physical and tactile, while a mother’s play is more visual and verbal. Author and pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, MD, puts it this way: “mothers stroke, fathers poke.” A father’s play has fits and starts, because let’s face it, if men are playing, they want it to be fun. If something isn’t fun, they will stop and start something new every time. In our Love Lab videos, we saw that women will persist in showing a baby some picture they think
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