Originally Posted by passthepotatoes
I'm joining the discussion very late, but I just wanted to say that it makes me sad to hear such negative words thrown around about babies. Words like moody, mean, manipulative, demanding, etc. It seems inappropriate to me to pigeon hole and predict a person's life long personality based on their behavior as an infant.

I don't use/view the word manipulative as negative at all.

I do think it takes a certain amount of mental ability for an infant to communicate his/her wants nonverbally.