No, your toothless wonder isn’t about to sit up and start lecturing on physics. His or her lesson is instead one that, as a parent, you have to remain receptive to hear. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, parenting is a fine balance in which we must “Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.” If you carefully observe your baby’s behavior, within that endless stream of eating and burping and sleeping and pooping becoming a parent brings brilliant nuggets of wisdom for the ages.
