Dance with me in the Heart: The adults' guide to great infant-parent partnerships

by Pennie Brownlee

Every baby arrives on this planet expecting partnership, and every child is genetically coded to be one half of that sacred first partnership.Dance With Me in the Heart offers guidelines for parents and teachers in following their hearts. It is 'heart intelligence' that weaves warm, loving partnerships between adults and babies, and it is this first partnership that lays the blueprint for every other relationship to follow. We adults are the senior dance partner, and our babies are relying on us to get the steps of the Heart Dance right."When my eldest daughter announced recently that she was expecting her first child, she asked me to recommend a book that was "consistent with all the brain research but also just told you how to do it" - I gave her this book." Nathan Wallis, M.Ed, Educational Cognitive Neuroscientist“Pennie’s simple yet profound approach will give you more parenting pleasure and your children will thrive. I recommend Dance with me in the Heart for all parents everywhere.” Dr Sarah Buckley, MB, ChB, Dip Obst. Author of “Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering”This book is inspired by the work of Dr Emmi Pikler and Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Genres: Nonfiction, Parenting

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2021

Reviews

[Luke · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book has some good ideas in it. It promotes a respectful child/parent relationship. It meanders and often is unclear leaving the reader to assume what the suggested good behavior is. This technique is easily interpreted as condescending. It is edited in a way that makes it difficult to read, it contains many small paragraphs and headings.

[Tamzin · Rating 2 out of 5]

The formatting of this book makes it very hard to read.

While some of the book was food for thought, I thought a lot of this book wasn't great. For example, I disliked that it implies the mother is the one and only for the baby for the first wee while, then the dad - as if dad is one of these 'strangers' that the baby doesn't need to be held by to start with. Ironically I felt this book forgets that all babies are different even though that's the point they're (I think) trying to get across.

[Bill Rand · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh, an okay take on raising kids by just letting them do what comes natural.