Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Whatever you do to your child's body, you are doing to your child's mind too.

Grown-up people do very little and say a great deal.... Toddlers say very little and do a great deal.... With a toddler you cannot explain, you have to show. You cannot send, you have to take. You cannot control with words, you have to use your body.

A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is some kind of general and diffuse irritability or tenseness which is preventing a tired baby relaxing into sleep. The burring sound of a fan or heater works excellently. So does the sound of a car engine.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.