babiescome equipped to a great degree, so alan bell south is a researcher at the university of washingtonleaned over a baby who is 43 minutes old, white this time she wiped her tongue that. that's because babies at this age are built to merge with the mind they come into contact with and really absorb models for understanding the world from who they come in contact with. by 18 months, 55% of american babies have established a two-way relationship with the mom primarily, but also the death of those kids have what they call a secure attachment. they really know how to build relationships with parents and with adults and those kids have a huge leg up. and so researchers can take a look at kids who are 18 months old, look how they attached a mom and predict the 77% accuracy who will graduate from high school. if you can go into a school that even at three or two or five and you know how to relate to the teacher, you just have a better shot of doing well in school. about 20% of kids are what they call avoiding the attached comic is to send out signals, but not much has been coming back at them