Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more … - Penelope Leach

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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

Penelope Leach

Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

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For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does 'just for fun' and things that are 'educational. ' The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

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There is no way out of the experience except through it, because it is not really your experience at all but the baby's. Your body is the child's instrument of birth.

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Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.

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Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

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Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

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