Justin whitson

“Around nine months is the earliest time you should think about spoiling. Before that, nurturing your baby’s confidence is one hundred times more important than pushing him to be independent.”
― Harvey Karp, The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

“Great literature survives, as Freud pointed out in his discussion of Oedipus Rex,18 because something in the reader leaps out to embrace its truth. The truth of fictional characters moves us because it is our own truth.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy

“For most parents the first is too stiff, but the second feels pretty normal. Well, that’s Toddler-ese! Amazingly, we instinctively automatically speak Toddler-ese when our kid does something to make us proud and happy! Too often, however, when she gets scared, mad, or sad, we suddenly become serious and stiff. Our voices get flat and ultracalm and we sound like emotional zombies, because we think that acting calm will calm our child. But this often backfires, because if we display no emotion when our child is really upset, she may feel misunderstood and alone just when she needs a friend.”
― Harvey Karp, The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One- to Four-Year-Old

“But will being too attentive to your newborn’s cries make him manipulative? Fortunately, the answer to that question is “Hell no!”
― Harvey Karp, The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer