Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle. — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby, who changes… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested. — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
“Our grandchildren will live together in a society with the offspring of neglected families. So will yours.” — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born, — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
You learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes. — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
