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  • Your Self-Confident Baby

  • How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start
  • By: Allison Johnson, Magda Gerber
  • Narrated by: Lauri Fraser
  • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Your Self-Confident Baby

By: Allison Johnson, Magda Gerber
Narrated by: Lauri Fraser
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Publisher's Summary

As the founder of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), Magda Gerber has spent decades helping new mothers and fathers give their children the best possible start in life. Her successful parenting approach harnesses the power of this basic fact: Your baby is unique and will grow in confidence if allowed to develop at his or her own pace. The key to successful parenting is learning to observe your child and to trust him or her to be an initiator, an explorer, a self-learner with an individual style of problem solving and mastery.

Now you can discover the acclaimed RIE approach. This practical and enlightening guide will help you:

  • Develop your own observational skills
  • Learn when to intervene with your baby and when not to
  • Find ways to connect with your baby through daily caregiving routines such as feeding, diapering, and bathing
  • Effectively handle common problems such as crying, discipline, sleep issues, toilet training, and much more.
©1998 Magda Gerber and Allison Johnson (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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game changer

while I dont agree with everything
.esp sleep related segments. the underlying message that child knows more, respect our young and move with more gentle slower observations has been key... also, the self care aspect as a FTM that's hugely isolated was reassuring x

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Respectfull parenting won't go out of fashion

Although there are newer parenting books on the market I found this very helpfull (although a little repetitive in parts)

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Outdated

Such an outdated book, eg 'patting is a mild form of spanking', there is no need for babies to be with their mothers too often hence there is no such thing as fourth trimester. If you are really determined you could take away some useful information out of it but overall not worth recommending.

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