We need to teach parents to take care of their kids using scientific methods? My God. Just love them, teach them, feed them and everything will work out.

Alot of what is said here goes against what I have learnt about development of child psychology. Child infants have no identity to work from, thus emulate their parents. So if you are always stressed out, easy to anger, all these traits will pass on to your child passively.

But this belief that a child has psychological awareness when he can't even usually recognize more then a few faces. I don't know about that. That usually comes in when the child is 2 and older.

My general feeling is that there is too many 'coaches' when it comes to bringing up kids, people who pray on parents who are trying to do everything plus the moon to make sure their child develops well.

I know how I was brought up, and I will endeavor to do the same. I don't really believe in listening to just anyone on how much child should be raised, especially after the early 90s crap of letting your child do whatever he wants to let him develop fully... yeah right... all you end up with is a disobedient brat who doesn't know where the limits lie.

Maybe if there weren't so many people damaged/disillusioned by their own experiences of childhood, new parenting fads/techniques wouldn't be so sought-after.

The notion of going to crying infants and soothing them immediately is a foreign one to many people-hence the popularity of the 'Controlled Crying technique'.

I was told by my own family that if I soothed my baby every time it cried (under the age of two at the time) I would be 'making a rod for my back'. It is a common belief that parents who respond to small infants immediately are 'pandering' to them, rather than providing for their needs.

This is wrong and needs to be addressed, I believe.