He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only p...air were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly... different ways--and all are right! At least all will do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As your baby progresses from one milestone to the next, remember that he doesn't really leave any of them behind. In order to grow... and develop to his full potential he must continually build on and strengthen all of the steps that have gone before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our day you will find that you have stopped regarding your baby as a totally unpredictable and therefore rather alarming novelty, ...and have begun instead to think of him as a person with tastes, preferences and characteristics of his own. When that happens you will know that he has moved on from being a "newborn" and has got himself settled into life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to become spoiled ... a child has to be able to want things as well as need them. He has to be able to see himself as a b...eing who is separate from everyone else.... A baby is none of these things. He feels a need and he expresses it. He is not intellectually capable of working out involved plans and ideas like "Can I make her give me...?" "If I make enough fuss he will...?" "They let me do ... yesterday and I want to do it again today so I'll...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your toddler is no longer a baby feeling himself as part of you, using you as his controller, facilitator, his mirror for himself ...and the world. But he is not yet a child either; ready to see you as a person in your own right and to take responsibility for himself and his own actions in relation to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 yo...u feel like giving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »