City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

On becoming baby wise, Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam, Book two

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non fiction

On becoming baby wise

Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam

On becoming series

It's reality-check time! You're at least four months into your tour of parenting, and the complexities of child training are starting to multiply. While your baby is growing physically, his mind is adapting with ever-increasing awareness to new sights, sounds, sensations and relationships. He can now interact with his material universe with greater attentiveness. Watch out: big changes are coming to his world and yours! Preserving the order and structure that brought security to your baby's day, peaceful sleep in your baby's nights and stability in your home is still the priority, but now it must be viewed through a new developmental lens. For example, feeding time is more than a biological response initiated by a baby's sucking reflex. For the five-month-old, meal times become a complex and conscious interaction between him and his parents, food and drink, preference and need, likes and dislikes, must dos and won't dos! This is also when waketime behaviours and responses start to fall into the categories of safe or unsafe and right or wrong, and will either be encouraged or discouraged by Mum and Dad's reactions

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Parenting your five to twelve month old through the babyhood transitions