{"id":538,"date":"2019-04-06T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/?p=538"},"modified":"2019-04-06T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T07:57:05","slug":"social-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/social-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"95%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#5E2F00\" width=\"35%\" height=\"401\">\n<em><u>SOCIAL SMILE &#8211; THE FACTS<br>\n<\/u>&#8211; The social smile is the first milestone a child reaches<br>\n-He reaches this milestone within 6 weeks of birth<br>\n-All other milestones follow in quick succession after the social smile is achieved<br>\n-A delay in the appearance of the social smile especially beyond 3 months is an ominous sign and indicates an underlying neurological problem<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"3\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"65%\" height=\"1\">\n<strong>Ask a Pediatrician about the social smile and he will readily rattle off the facts written in the corner!<br>\nWhen a baby is born, he is a parasite! All he does is feed, sleep and demand that he be dried when he is wet. He cries for attention. There is no acknowledgement, no thankyous and no smile.<br>\nThen suddenly one day he wakes up. Realization dawns on him. He turns to his mother&#8230;.. and smiles.<br>\nSuddenly everyone&#8217;s excited. Everyone wants to look.<br>\nThe social smile, as we call it, is the most exciting thing in early infancy. The change is dramatic.<\/strong>\n<p><strong>A delayed social smile is ominous sign and usually shows some underlying brain or developmental problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<strong>In a way our Christian life is like that. When we first know God we are totally dependant on Him &#8211; almost parasite-like. We run to Him for everything. He try to get everything out of Him. And we rarely acknowledge.<\/strong><br>\n<strong>One of the first positive signs in a normal Christian is an acknowledgement of Christ&#8230;.the spiritual smile, as I like to call it.<\/strong><br>\n<strong>The spiritual smile is in many ways very similar to the social smile. It is one of the earliest milestones a Christian reaches. After this everything else follows. A delay is usually pathognomic of some underlying spiritual insult &#8211; backsliding, callousness, carelessness.<\/strong>\n<strong><br>\nSo introspect!<br>\nCheck yourself out!!<br>\nHave you achieved your Spiritual smile as yet?<br>\nNope!<br>\nContact The Physician Immediately!!<\/strong>\n&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#5E2F00\" width=\"35%\" height=\"1\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#5E2F00\" width=\"35%\" height=\"1\">\n<em>Based on what Savita, my colleague, shared in Church one Sunday&nbsp;<\/em>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr width=\"75%\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCIAL SMILE &#8211; THE FACTS &#8211; The social smile is the first milestone a child reaches -He reaches this milestone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSfer-8G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.addicted2jesus.com\/a2j\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}