Remember, nobody can make another person fall asleep. How to relax and let sleep come is a skill your child, like everybody else, must learn all by herself.

Infancy is a vulnerable stage of development, therefore, it's not enough that babies receive good care, the care must be excellent.

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.

An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

Do less; observe more; enjoy most.

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