Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have..

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educatio….

Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have ….

Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaning….

Your toddler will be "good" if he feels like doing what you happen to want him to do and does not happen to feel like doing anything you would dislik….

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too..

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives..

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future..

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear..

There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's ins….

A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and d….

You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it.….

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving..

Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped….

A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpred….