Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested..

A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a new challenge (for i….

Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many….

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one..

Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - ….

Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding the….

Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent looks at th….

A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, ….

All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more ski….

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born..

You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes..

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply..