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Right from the very beginning babies love having someone to scare them – just as long as they trust the person doing the scaring and are in control of when to stop. They can’t get enough of a game like peekaboo, especially the ‘boo’ ending, and they ask for it to be repeated over and over in an endless loop. Of course they know what’s going to happen and it’s...