How do you set boundaries to babies that can’t really communicate, or do you just react to their every whim?
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Quick Question: Boundaries For Babies?
February 26th, 2007 by Erica Douglas · 1 Comment
Tags: Parenting
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Whitney Hoffman // Feb 27, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Erica-
They only understand their needs at this point, and not yours. Specifics can let me be more helpful, but babies are still trying to figure out everything- it’s all a great experiment to them, and your attention, positive of negative is what they want- no attention is what they hate.
There’s a great NY Times article about What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage that I also wrote about on my blogger blog about positive reinforcement in parenting- these might help as well. (Sent you the article via email)
Yeah, it seems weird to consider animal training techniques on people, but basic learning all works in similar ways, so don’t be too hasty in dismissing the ideas.
Whit
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