Title: Serious Fun
Review: As a health professional, I've read Magda's books and other material related to RIE. TREES tops them all in making simple, even intuitive ideas accessible and hip. It's fun to read! (Magda's books are pretty dry.) More importantly, it's filled with ideas, not just based on RIE, about ways for parents to enjoy their kids, while honoring their own instincts. My work in New York and the former Soviet republics is focused on helping local populations participate more directly in their own well-being. TREES, in its own way, does the same thing, not just for parents, but for their babies. It says that we can participate in our lives, fully and with great fun and feeling, even as newborns, that brand-new babies aren't scary, and aren't incapacitated, either. They're aware, sentient, and ready to take part in everything that's happening to them.That's a very new idea...
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