Dear Parent: Caring for Infants With Respect

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Summary: The perfect guide to peace and harmony with your baby!
Review: This easy to read, small but profound book is probably all you will need for a long long time. If all children were treated this way, there would have been nothing but peace and harmony on Earth.

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Summary: Good companion volume
Review: This is a good book to have if you have already read Your Self-Confident Baby, actually written by Magda Gerber, and are an enthusiast. It's a series of essays and talks given by Gerber and edited by someone else into a semi-coherent guide. It's the first book we read on the subject, and taking the theory of respect into practice has made a giant difference in our interactions with our son, but we were both annoyed by the occasionally hectoring tone. I have just finished the Self-Confident Baby, and found it to be more coherent, more comprehensive, more sympathetic, and all around more useful. I definitely recommend the RIE method to any new parent or grandparent, it's made a world of difference in the level of peace in our household with our (very) active son, but start with the other book.