babyisms

Updated: August 7, 2026

Those lessons were the germs of the inventions and babyisms the hand-clapping, arm-twisting, and the like with which the infants are so delighted in their schools, and which, at the time they were developed, about a third of a century since, were scouted, and the inventor looked upon as a good natured simpleton, or a well-meaning fool.

Samuel Wilderspin - The Infant System: For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, from One to Seven years of Age