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Contrary to certain opinions, babies are almost impos-sible to train. Throughout their entire babyhood they only respond badly to attempts to chastise them or to over-regulate their lives. Unless their parents have been indoc-trinated with inappropriate regimes, they will escape this fate. And so they should because a secure babyhood pro-vides the basis for a successful adulthood. No baby can be loved too much.

Babywatching is a way of looking at infants so that we can see the world from their point of view instead of ours. The more we can think like a baby, the greater our chance of becoming good parents. This applies to fathers as well as mothers, and if the chapters that follow sometimes seem to ignore the father's role, this is only because in the past …

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