📚📝🔎 Baby Knows Best offers a clear and direct approach to understanding the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) method of parenting.
The main idea of this method revolves around building a respectful relationship with your baby and seeking to understand who he/she is and give him/her space to discover, try, and learn.
Some other key ideas:
📌 move and act slowly, to give your baby time to follow what you say or do, and feel less stressed;
📌 observe your baby more and interfere less in what he does;
📌 tell him what you see (what your baby does in specific contexts) in an objective manner, without transmitting your view of the situation (it might come as a surprise, but we are so wrong sometimes);
📌 acknowledge when he/she is doing something by saying what he/she managed to do and not by using Bravo or any other such expression that will have a negative impact on your baby’s self-esteem.
There are, however, some ideas presented in the book that I do not agree with. Among these, one thing which feels very wrong to me is letting your baby cry it out. Or, as the author puts it: you hear him cry? Stay where you are and then stay a bit more where you are because your baby will most probably calm on his own.
Title: Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE Way
Details: Deborah Carlisle Solomon, Little, Brown and Company, $16.00 (288p)
ISBN: 978-0316219204
Buy: https://www.rie.org/product/baby-knows-best-paperback/
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