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Parenting Is A Journey -Sign Posts to Guide You

April 27, 2012

Janis Keyser, author of Becoming The Parent You Want To Be, opened her talk Parenting Is A Journey by sharing that Laura Davis, who is the  co-author of the book, lobbied hard for titling the book Become The Parent You Want To Be. Janis argued that they couldn’t name the book Become The Parent You Want To [...]

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Book Review: “Bringing Up Bebe”

February 7, 2012

Perhaps you’ve heard of former Wall Street Journal reporter Pamela Druckerman’s new memoir, Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting? Written in a lively, engaging style, laced with many humorous anecdotes, and well researched, this is not a “how to”, so much as it is Druckerman’s finely observed account of how [...]

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Your Baby Is Speaking To You

July 5, 2011

Newborn babies communicate with us from birth, in a language all their own. Their body posture, cries, subtle changes in expression, even the reflexes they are born with, speak volumes, but it can be a little bit hard to “understand” a baby’s way of “speaking” if you haven’t spent a lot of time hanging out [...]

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So Many Books, So Little Time

June 22, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: A moment in time. Magda and me, at a used bookstore in Hollywood.

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Listening

August 28, 2010

The following are quotes from Joyce Maynard’s novel Labor Day about what babies know, and what they need, and how we might listen to, and be with them. I found these passages to be inspiring and wise, and wanted to share them here: One thing he would tell me, though, he said, had to do [...]

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Recommended Reading

April 1, 2009

I’ve been too busy, tired, and sick as of late, to post much. I REALLY understand that as parents and professionals caring for young children, you have very little free time, and if you’re going to read something, it has to be a quick easy read that is really worth your time and attention, is [...]

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Baby Dancing

July 15, 2008

Diana Suskind is a professor at Fitchburg State College in MA,and is the person who introduced me to RIE and to Magda Gerber’s work. She is a wonderful, creative lady and a tireless advocate for RIE. She has literally traveled the world introducing Magda and the RIE philosophy to parents,children, and child care providers. In [...]

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Wait

June 9, 2008

I’ve often been encouraged by parents, colleagues, and friends to write a book for parents. I ‘ve always maintained that there was no need for this since the two best books I’ve ever read on the subject have already been written by one of my finest teachers. I really can’t think of anything to add- [...]

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Meditation- Slowly, Slowly, Slowly

April 20, 2008

Eric Carle is one of my favorite children’s book authors. Recently S. (who is now two and a half years old) and I checked  ”Slowly Slowly Slowly Said The Sloth”,  out of the library. This book delighted S. and never failed to relax her before nap time as I read it in a very quiet [...]

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