Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy
Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded): How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
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The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff,
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Babies need interaction with parents and other humans; they need to manipulate their environment (to touch things, to feel and move them), and they need to do “problem-solving” activities (such as the eternal “where did it go?” problem-solving of peekaboo).3
Kim John Payne M.Ed. • Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
and to learn the meaning of your own baby’s patterns of communications over time. Once the underlying problems that this book discusses are properly addressed, responding sensibly to a baby’s cues makes life (and sleep) easiest for families, now and later.