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UN BREF RAPPEL… Pour encourager l’autonomie 1. OFFREZ DES CHOIX – Aimerais-tu porter ton pantalon gris ou ton pantalon rouge aujourd’hui ? 2. MONTREZ À L’ENFANT QUE VOUS RESPECTEZ SES EFFORTS – Ça peut être difficile d’ouvrir un pot. C’est parfois utile de taper sur le côté du couvercle avec une cuillère. 3. NE POSEZ PAS TROP DE QUESTIONS – Bonsoir

The Attachment Connection: Parenting a Secure and Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2008),

Don’t withhold your affection or attention from your “favorite child” in order to make it up to a less favored child. Some

The Marshmallow Test was a celebrated experiment in the history of psychology designed to measure children’s ability to delay gratification, and track the consequences of being able to think long-term. Some three-year-old children were offered a marshmallow, but told they would get two if they held off from eating the first one for five minutes. It

You are the expert on your baby. You are uniquely positioned to experiment,

But a child’s emotions are just as real and important to him as our grown-up emotions are to us. The best way to help a child “get over it” is to help him go through it.

Maybe we have to become almost old and have grown children, as I have, to understand our own parents and, reflected in them, something more about ourselves. Now, suddenly, I seem to comprehend the abyss of solitude I would fall into if I could no longer telephone my mother and tell her that Michele and the children are fine and ate happily.