Listen to your baby

Listen to your child

How to respond to your child's signals for optimal development and joyful relationships

From the bestselling author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves

From birth to six years

How do you raise a child when there is more advice online and in books than ever before?

Today's parents are not drowning in a lack of information, but in an absolute flood of it. Dozens of theories, conflicting advice and opinions from various experts easily make us feel that we do not actually know what is best for our child. Naomi Aldort, internationally acclaimed parenting expert and bestselling author of Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, comes with a simple yet essential message: you do not need to know all the answers. Trust yourself and learn to truly listen to your child.

This groundbreaking parenting guide helps you get rid of fear, insecurity and established ideas of what we "should" do as parents. It shows how to perceive your child as they really are, understand their needs and build a relationship between parent and child based on trust, security and respect.

The book also offers a wealth of practical, clear and often surprising solutions to everyday parenting situations. It sets the record straight on some established ideas about upbringing and shows that a calmer and stronger relationship with your child does not come from more rules and instructions, but from greater trust in your own parenting intuition.

In this book, you will learn how to:

• understand baby crying and signals

• approach breastfeeding, feeding and sleep

• get rid of stress and insecurity about what "should" be done

• handle tantrums without shouting and punishment

• resolve sibling conflict and jealousy

• trust your own parenting intuition

• use Byron Katie's method, The Work

• build a relationship based on trust, respect and freedom

Naomi Aldort is the author of the international bestseller Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, which has been published in more than twenty languages. She lectures on parenting and family dynamics worldwide at conferences, universities and other events, and her articles and parenting advice have been published in magazines such as Mothering, Nurture, Pathways, Juno and The Attached Family. In her work, she helps parents and couples find more peace, understanding and joy in their relationships with children and each other. She draws on the principles of empathetic communication and Byron Katie's method, The Work. Naomi is a mother of three grown children and a grandmother of three grandchildren. Find out more about her work at AuthenticParent.com and NaomiAldort.com.