Whatever, Mom
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But as the kiddos begin to learn more about mama as a person (and not just as a baby-doting slave), the crying, skirt-pulling, separation-anxiety-every-time-Mom-leaves-the-room behavior begins to lessen.
"By the third or fourth year of life," Bowlby noted, "the child increasingly understands that his or her mother has motives and plans of her own, and their relationship develops into a 'goal-corrected partnership.'"
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