Much harm has been done in the name of love, but no harm can be done in the name of respect.

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being.

I wish children could grow according to their natural pace: sleep when sleepy, wake up when rested, eat when hungry, cry when upset, play and explore without being unnecessarily interrupted; in other words, be allowed to grow and blossom as each was meant to.

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

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.

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.

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.