Nursery Rhymes
In "Hey Diddle Diddle," the dish runs away with this utensil.
The Spoon.
Advice: Don't feel pressure to decorate your nursery pink or blue because gender is a ____.
Social construct.
A baby bear, lion, or fox all share this name in common.
A cub.
This iconic 1987 movie features the line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."
Dirty Dancing.
This is the very first sense a baby develops in the womb.
Hearing.
Little Bo-Peep tragically lost these animals.
Her sheep.
Advice: Working moms, prepare to clock into this unpaid "shift" of baby care and cleaning immediately after finishing your day job.
Second shift.
A baby deer.
Fawn.
Vanilla Ice's 1990 chart-topper that sampled the song "Under Pressure."
Ice Ice Baby.
On average, a newborn baby will go through about 10-12 of these items every day.
Diapers.
This multitasking mother had so many children that she didn't know what to do.
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.
Advice: If you want your baby to have an early societal head start, pass down the right tastes, habits, and manners to build up this type of capital.
Cultural capital.
The name of a famous baby kangaroo who lives in the Hundred Acre Woods.
Roo.
Britney Spears' debut single released in 1998.
...Baby One More Time.
While adults blink about 15 times a minute, a newborn baby averages only about this many times per minute.
1-2 times.
While eating her curds and whey, this character was frightened away by an uninvited arachnid.
Advice: Follow this middle class parenting strategy by heavily scheduling your child into structured, organized activities.
Concerted cultivation.
This reptile returns to the beach of its birth to lay its eggs in the sand.
This prehistoric infant is the daughter of Fred & Wilma Flintstone.
Pebbles.
Around 9 months old, babies enjoy playing this classic hiding game because they finally mastered object permanence.
Peak-a-boo.
Little Jack Horner pulled this fruit out of his Christmas pie.
A plum.
Advice: don't worry about buying a physical mirror for the nursery; this three-word concept states that your baby will build their entire self-image based on how they see you judging and reacting to them.
The looking-glass self.
This lion cub stars in the 1994 Disney classic featuring James Earl Jones.
Simba.
This toddler is the youngest member of the Incredibles superhero family.
Jack-Jack
This essential skeletal structure found on the leg is entirely absent in newborns and only exists as soft cartilage.
Kneecaps.