Parenting is something to be done with your baby and not to your baby. Based on Marie''s own practice and the latest neuroscientific findings, as well as the latest psychoanalytic and attachment theories, The Book Your Baby Wants You to Read gives parents the tools to understand their baby''s communications and suggests effective, practical and enjoyable strategies to enhance the parent-infant bonding experience. The more actively involved we are, right from the start, in our emotional relationship with our babies, by accepting them as a fully active participant in the parenting process, the more likely our dependent babies will grow into independent, well-balanced, successful adults. The shift in perspective that Marie advocates ''will be like putting on a pair of magic glasses and suddenly being able to see the space between us and our babies/children, a space that is filled up with an incredibly rich traffic of emotions and feelings. We are going to learn to improve the quality of this traffic, and this will leave a life-long positive imprint in our babies'' minds, brains and bodies.'' This is a book for every new parent who wants to understand their baby and build strong bonds from the moment the child is born.

Autorentext

Marie Derome is a Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist and a Lecturer in Infant Observation & Child Development at Exeter University. She trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London and worked in CAMHS in Bristol. She now supports parents who are struggling to bond with their babies in her independent clinic in East Devon.
Before her career change, Marie worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC World Service and wrote for the French newspaper Liberation.
Marie, who is originally from France, lives with her husband on a small farm in Devon where they have raised their four children.

Klappentext

Long before they can speak, our babies are brilliant communicators. They tell us - with their eyes and mouths, their little arms and legs, and all their funny noises - just how they feel and what they need. All we have to do as parents is listen. For child psychotherapist and mother of four Marie Derome, parenting is not about imposing 'rules' on our babies. Rather, it is about being attentive, curious and ready to discover who our babies are so we can truly get to know them.

Drawing on her clinical practice, alongside the latest neuroscientific findings, Marie teaches us how to strengthen the bond we have with our babies in a new and empowering way. She also offers helpful insights to get us back on track when we feel exhausted and overwhelmed, and when loving our babies is not so easy.

In What Your Baby Wants You to Know, Marie shows us how to nurture a loving connection with our babies so that they can grow happy and resilient and we can become the confident, responsive parents we always hoped to be.

Zusammenfassung

Parenting is something to be done with your baby and not to your baby. Based on Marie's own practice and the latest neuroscientific findings, as well as the latest psychoanalytic and attachment theories,The Book Your Baby Wants You to Read gives parents the tools to understand their baby's communications and suggests effective, practical and enjoyable strategies to enhance the parent-infant bonding experience. The more actively involved we are, right from the start, in our emotional relationship with our babies, by accepting them as a fully active participant in the parenting process, the more likely our dependent babies will grow into independent, well-balanced, successful adults.

The shift in perspective that Marie advocates 'will be like putting on a pair of magic glasses and suddenly being able to see the space between us and our babies/children, a space that is filled up with an incredibly rich traffic of emotions and feelings. We are going to learn to improve the quality of this traffic, and this will leave a life-long positive imprint in our babies' minds, brains and bodies.'

This is a book for every new parent who wants to understand their baby and build strong bonds from the moment the child is born.