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

"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. ..."--Page 4 of cover "As the founder of Resources for Infant Educators (RIE), Magda Gerber spent decades helping new mothers and fathers give their children the best possible start in life. Her ... 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 trust him or her to be an initiator, an explorer - a self-learner with an individual style of problem solving and mastery."--Back cover Magda Gerber, founder of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), describes the RIE approach to parenting, which involves observing your child and "trust[ing] him or her to be an initiator, an explorer, a self-learner with an individual style of problem solving and mastery."--Page 4 of cover