Magda Gerber

Toddler Lives in Adult Time

You may not want to hear this. But here goes. Toddlers (and those on either side of them, infants and preschoolers) do not care about being somewhere on time. They don’t care about what time school or day care starts. They don’t care what time you have to be at work. They don’t care what Toddler Lives in Adult Time

Art & Science: Thoughts about RIE®

Once upon a time, long long ago, in a land not so far away–in a time before banishment–I was a member of a very well known discussion group on facebook that focuses on parenting according to RIE®, a relatively unknown and and simultaneously frequently misunderstood philosophy of respectful caregiving, popularized (such as it is) in Art & Science: Thoughts about RIE®