To worry about spoiling an infant by comforting him when he cries is needless.... If you put the baby down and the baby cries, pic...k him up. His crying isn't a habit you should try to break. Your baby can't be taught not to cry.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 »
Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looki...ng from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was... too hard for the digestion of the Cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The female part of the Cry (who had many of them often experienced a joyful self- approbation on being told by their admirers that... all their perfection lay in folly and that to prove their wisdom they must shun, as poison, every offered instruction for fear of becoming disagreeable to their lovers) now felt rolling in their bosoms the highest anger and disdain. Not against their adorers for so preposterous a method of flattery, much less against themselves for receiving and being pleased with such absurd adulation: but all their indignation was pointed against Portia for daring to bring into open light the true meaning of such paradoxical stuff.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 »