To stop baby rudy fussing for a sharp knife on the kitchen table, rudy's mother put it in her apron pocket. "out of sight, out of mind," she said, and it worked. rudy's mother has capitalized on his lack of the concept of:

The appropriate response is the idea of egocentrism. Egocentrism is simply the powerlessness to separate and other. All the more particularly, it is the powerlessness to unwind subjective patterns from target reality; a failure to comprehend or accept any point of view other than their own.