Sensorimotor Stage: Here's a group of nannies with two children of different ages and of different stages of development. The child being lifted is very young and a great example of someone still in Piaget's sensorimotor stage. This child's whole world is not much more than the space in between him (maybe a her?) and the nanny. At one point he reached out to feel the nanny's nose. That apparently was fascinating to him. The other child creates a nice contrast in this photo of the next stage Piaget describes: the Preoperational stage. Like the child with the cell phone previously described, this little girl (or boy... I need help on being able to tell the gender of children more readily) can place her attention on something happening 30 feet away. If she wasn't in a stroller, she could probably stumble towards the other children playing on her own. Who knows how she would react after she joined them... she might try to emulate their actions but would probably be distracted before too long by the next exciting thing.
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