A MUST HAVE for new mums

I've heard a lot about Magda Gerber while living in Hungary, but this was one of my most valuable purchase on babies and infants.
I tried all the little tricks on my 3 yo niece who cried (way too much in my opinion) and had no boundaries and was a bit difficult to be around with.
Literally everything in the book worked for the first try.
Wow.
(We have two friends who are infantcare professionals and they both rave about this way of raising infantren. Even the WHO did a study on this system!)
It is written in no non-sense way, very straight forward and sometimes very awakening when you realize that you make those particular mistakes used as an example in the book.
I recommend this book to all mums. IT IS A MUST HAVE!

[Sunday, July 06, 2008]

Great intro to RIE

This book is a great introduction to the RIE philosophy. If you think treating your baby with respect, allowing him the space to explore and learning to read his cues are worthy parenting goals, this is the book for you. It is short and to the point. The writing is not as good as Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Startwhich was written my Magda Gerber (the founder of RIE) along with journalist Allison Johnson. That said, it is a great summery of the RIE concepts.
Dr. Jenn Berman
www.DoctorJenn.com
Author of The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids

[Sunday, July 15, 2007]

mixed feelings

This is a bizarre book in that some chapters made perfect sense and others completely missed the mark. For example, her ideas about cribs and diapers were very rigid and traditional in a bad way. She actually called the family bed a fad. That's one of the many places she totally lost me; that's ridiculous. Also, she assumes that parents will be diapering the baby for 3 years, not taking into account that most of the world does not diaper in the western way, but instead practices EC. Therefore her views on toilet training were very limited and underestimated the infant's capabilities. There's also a LOT of leaving the babies alone in this book, it was excessive. Other separate chapters, for example about taking your baby outside, or observing baby carefully were beautiful. I have never disagreed more and agreed more with ideas in the same book before. I think the ideas about letting infant develop naturally at his/her own pace can be found better (without the bizarro stuff in between) in "You are your infant's first teacher" which explains the good ideas in this book, such as avoiding battery operated toys and television for infantren and creating a peaceful environment.

[Saturday, June 30, 2007]

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