“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around severalmothers, all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk ablue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker. . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal healthphysical and mentaland development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Leta hundred flowers bloom.”
