Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities-from the Very Start Book

A guide to parenting that aligns remarkably well with principles of neuroscience. An authoritative/ cooperative approach to parenting, rather than authoritarian/directive. I value the ideas about not attempting to help a child with tasks they have not yet developed to do, and when helping a child giving only the smallest amount of support to allow the child to complete the task (allowing for mastery). A method of parenting that really supports a child learning through exploration of the world (as they are seen as inherent learners) rather than direct instruction. I remember there were a couple of ideas that didn't work for me, but the philosophy- and many of the author's practical applications, made so much sense to me that these points of disagreement did not reduce the book in my opinion.