Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities -- From the Very Start

""Magda Gerber's approach will deepen your understanding of your baby and help you truly appreciate the complexity, competence, and amazing capacities of the small human being for whom you are caring.""
--Jeree H. Pawl, Ph.D. Director, Infant-Parent Program University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

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.

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• Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
• No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
• Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE™ Way
• Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful Parenting
• Dear Parent: Caring for Infants With Respect (2nd Edition)
• Respecting Babies: A New Look at Magda Gerber's Rie Approach
• 1,2,3...The Toddler Years: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers
• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind