And she worked at the Magical Nook, a day care center.CIRELLI: It was a large center that had different age groups, so there was a baby room and a toddler room, preschoolers, school-age children. We have to come up with clever ways of figuring out what's going on in their little brains.VEDANTAM: Later in the show, we'll hear from a researcher who says parents are often misguided when they try to steer their children's lives.ALISON GOPNIK: If you just do the right things, get the right skills, read the right books, you're going to be able to shape your child into a particular kind of adult.VEDANTAM: But first, we'll start with the language of babies, even babies who don't speak words.(SOUNDBITE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO)UNIDENTIFIED INFANTS: (Babbling).(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)CIRELLI: Hi, I'm Laura Cirelli.VEDANTAM: When Laura was in college, she spent her summer vacations back home in Sudbury, Ontario. We can't really ask them what they're thinking. Today, we focus on the younger set - the much younger set.LAURA CIRELLI: I find babies are so impressive. To us non-babies, it sounds like gobbledygook - cute, mysterious gobbledygook.(SOUNDBITE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO)UNIDENTIFIED INFANTS: (Babbling).VEDANTAM: Here at HIDDEN BRAIN, we love trying to understand the puzzles and contradictions of human behavior, but we spend most of our time talking about the older members of the human race. What makes this video special is that we have no clue what these babies are saying. ![]() Now, if this video featured 10-year-old twins or adult twins, I guarantee you it wouldn't have gone viral. In this video, a pair of twin brothers are standing in a kitchen having a little chat.(SOUNDBITE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO)UNIDENTIFIED INFANTS: (Babbling).VEDANTAM: These twin brothers.(SOUNDBITE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO)UNIDENTIFIED INFANTS: (Babbling).VEDANTAM. There's a video on YouTube you might have seen. We'll be back next with a new episode.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)VEDANTAM: This is HIDDEN BRAIN. It's a conversation with psychology professor Alison Gopnik who makes the case that less really is more when it comes to parenting. The second half of the show features a 2017 episode called Kinder-Gardening. We love the story because it gives us new ways to think about how to communicate with small children, plus the sounds of babbling babies are incredibly cute. It features a podcast episode from last May called Baby Talk. Quick note about today's episode - this show is what we call a radio replay, meaning it's one that we recently put out on the radio version of HIDDEN BRAIN and have decided to drop back into our podcast feed. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode.
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