What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy.

If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

Allow the child to be authentic, to move, to feel the way they move, appreciating them for what they are.

By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.