How do children learn how to make elephant sounds? I can understand a moo-moo here and an oink-oink there, but an elephant? It must be something babies are born with, because every infant I’ve met knows how to **BiaAAH!**
A baby’s cry is appropriately disturbing: ear-piercing enough to get the caregiver’s attention… but not so disturbing as to make the listener want to avoid the sound altogether.
Quotation from Ask Dr. Sears, 7 Things Parents Should Know About Baby’s Cries
“not so disturbing as to make the listener want to avoid the sound altogether”??????? Really? Has Dr.Sears heard a baby cry? When I was new-mom, I went into full-on-panic-mode trying to do anything just to make it stop crying!
I’d say I was trying to avoid the crying altogehter….
I’m just sayin’……..
My trick was to breast feed about 8 hours a day while reading books out loud to him. They can’t make that sound with their mouths full
pink elephants hahaha, you are a very bad girl
and also hahahahaha poop out the indigestible parts of my house
I’ve enjoyed this, very beautiful words to illustrate the story, Thanks very much
‘blowing into his trunk and he’ll be your friend forever’, eh, yep that would work with me! ha ha. Yes, baby’s and those noises that get just the attention they require, we learn the subtle art of manipulation from an early age. I would love children to have a volume button, with an option for mute……. guess I won’t be on ‘Mothercare’s’ Christmas card list after saying that!
Dr Sears didn’t do much babysitting
I always wonder why elephants don’t gag as they’re snortingup water. I know I would.
lol, very amusing post!
and then there’s the mother’s milk factor, hear a baby cry, any baby and you’re ready to nurse, they don’t tell you that part
Blowing in his trunk, huh? This would depend on how badly you really wanted to be that particular elephant’s friend.
The cry of a baby – have yet to stop responding – probably always will…
didn’t knew that elephants’ and babies’ cries have the same sound hehehe that photo above is so lovely. I think it will be more effective if you took it from the same level as the baby’s eyes
At 30-years-old, “biahh!” doesn’t work anymore…
The green donkey has problem with pink elephants… they are always eating very quickly waht the donkey loves…. BiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Blow in a horse’s nose. They like it. Nayaayyayy!
My youngest didn’t sound like an elephant. It was more like a tropical bird. The oldest still sounds sort of like a donkey, which is cute as a baby – not so much as a teen. Ah, well. Good thing she’s cute.
At this point in my life, it’s a sound to be avoided altogether. Sorry, Dr. Sears.
I gather any celebrity interviewing a pink elephant might will have to put up with bad breath but the real ones are very touchy about their trunks which are senstive enough to pick up a peanut or two. A trumpeting elephant might sound like the crying infant ? but I think elephants more sensibly form caring groups were momma has aunt’s siblings and other juveniles to call on for help- comforting crying children was never easy- especially when it all boils down to one person.
Best wishes
Ya i do believe pink elephants are a myth for alcohol but mushrooms on the other hand could give you as many pink elephants as you care to talk to.
I guess i am not up on baby’s crying ’cause i don’t equate them with elephants, just something i really want to get as much distance as possible from.
About baby cry… when my friend had her baby, I was surprised to see that the cries aren’t loud, which isn’t surprising considering how tiny newborns are.
Sera: One of the few times when the Converse basketball shoes are absent. A special occasion, no doubt with Holiday parties to attend etc.!
) I see kids crying because they are tire and need a nap. Also, many parents in shopping malls don’t understand that when a kid is 3 feet tall, their arm goes numb holding their parents hand. The next thing you hear is a swat on the butt and crying. The better times, though, are when an ice cream cone solves a cry and life is good! lol to U!
Dig the pink elephant story
great pic, but as far as a child’s cry, the not ear-piercing scream is just for the parents… for me any baby screaming gets ear-piercing fairly fast… 
You’ve outdone yourself with these drawings – they pop off the screen! LOVE THESE!!!!
I stay away from elephants. They look meek and mild-mannered, but it is pure deception. I’m sticking with alligators and making alligator sounds. much safer.
i have an elephant story…. not pink.
didn’t like kids at all till i had mine. the first wasn’t planned, but i fell in love with him at first sight, and was lost forever. i’ll never again hear a child cry without feeling an ache in my heart. now i teach kids to play the violin, and love it. go figure.