Sirens, bells and alarms just work! Have you had the chance to observe a one-year-old recently ? Or maybe you remember that age when kids are just about to walk by themselves and they try all sorts of techniques to satisfy their thirst for mobility ? Crawling on their belly, jumping ahead from a sitting position, pulling
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Love and basic care. These are the two conditions Donald W. Winnicott identified as key success factors for a baby to develop and grow happily. A British pediatrician and psychoanalyst, Winnicott focused a great deal on childcare in the aftermath of World War II – too many orphans, challenging times for Great Britain, he found
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“Although not a religious woman, she had a mystical faith in the old Yiddish proverb that for every pot there is a cover, that in every problem the good Lord presented her there was a matching problem which provided the solution to both. There had been plenty of men when she was younger who had
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Did you know that it’s pretty easy to check how well babies hear and see? It obviously doesn’t take long before a baby starts following a movement or react to a voice, but that’s only an indication that their senses are alert. So how do you actually measure how fine their senses are? I can’t
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You know those yellow cabs in New York City? I was told this is where all the umbrellas of the world end up. According to the taxi driver who fetched me at Kennedy Airport, there is a strange black hole phenomena taking place at the back of these cabs, and umbrellas just keep accumulating there.
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