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Why young children do not catch yawns

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Babies are entirely immune to your tired sighs. The neurological mirror systems required to catch a contagious yawn simply do not finish downloading into a human brain until around age four. Before that milestone, toddlers will just stare blankly at your gaping mouth, entirely incapable of mirroring the physiological glitch.

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