Magnets

My 4-month old girl is fascinated with magnets – the kind that you stick on the fridge. It’s quite amazing – you pick her up and show her these magnets, and she’ll immediately start to smile an extremely foolish smile and start to go “ga-ga-agoo-ga”. How can I know its magnets in general and not a particular magnet? And how do I know its not the fridge?

Well, I’ve checked - She liked the magnets at Charu’s house too & smiled even when I got the magnets off the fridge and showed them to her. The last thing to do in these experiments is to check whether other 4-month old babies like magnets too – but then, why would I want to find that out?

Here is a photo of X sitting in my chair quite contentedly: