<br><h2>CHAPTER 1</h2><p><b>Learn from Your Baby</b></p><br><p>Oops! Suddenly, you're the parent of a tiny being who is a completemystery to you, someone for whom you feel so much love and on whomyou have no grip whatsoever.</p><p>Welcome to the world of parenting—to your new life as a parent.Forget about all the parenting books, websites, and blogs that you haveread so far. Forget all the well-meant advice given by your parents,grandparents, colleagues, and neighbors.</p><p>Your child has one message for you, and it goes as follows: "It'sbetween you and me now, buddy!" In other words, "We are now bothin unfamiliar territory," meaning that your child will be using you andyour partner as guinea pigs and for target practice in developing his orher unique genetic and karmic package (or character, if you will).</p><p>Furthermore, your child will mirror you to an extent that will be quitedisconcerting and, of course, amusing and endearing, as well. He or shewill mirror all that you are repressing (i.e., all your unconscious behavior).These are the things you had long forgotten, including your own hiddenchildhood traumas and discomforts and all emotional matters that youmanage to rationalize for yourself. Why? Because, for the baby, there isonly the here and now—a world of feeling and eternal <i>now</i>.</p><p>If babies could somehow communicate how the world looks and feelsto them, and how they interact with the world, it might go somethinglike this:</p><p>No thinking. No worrying. No insincere behavior. Nofaking. An ocean of bliss.</p><p>What I feel is what I feel, and that is what I share in mypurest and most virtuous form.</p><p>And furthermore, I sense and suffer all that you feeland/or suppress. I am who I am. No compromising(yet). I am either happy or unhappy, or I am in thatdelightful, pure now, where things simply are.</p><p>So there is no need for you to distract me or foryou to entertain me. My cognitive abilities and mydevelopment will start up by themselves, because mybrain is programmed to develop at lightning speed.</p><br><p>As loving parents with only the best of intentions, we all tend tomake serious mistakes that may have huge consequences at a later stage.The biggest mistake is projecting our perception of reality onto our babyor child. This will lead to a smorgasbord of problems later in life.</p><p>Because each generation of new souls on this planet—and each newbaby—has his or her own "program" to follow, the less we interfere, themore successfully it can unfold. Parenting is all about facilitating andbeing a good example.</p><p>In contrast to most adults, a baby's world is one big party. Babiesare learning about the world all the time, and they do this without anyoutside help.</p><br><p>>> Live now! Do this by emptying your head. Be more like yourbaby. Just <i>be</i>. Observe, feel, and listen.</p><p>>> Be yourself. Work on yourself. Strive to be at peace.</p><p>>> Babies do not need to be entertained.</p><p>>> Learn from your baby.</p><h2>CHAPTER 2</h2><p><b>Let Your Baby Play and Dream</p><br><p>Nowadays, we are inundated by</b> thousands of books on parenting andhundreds of magazines and websites, all of which overemphasize theearly cognitive development of children. In doing so, these resources(perhaps inadvertently) ignore the most important aspect of beinghuman: the fact that we are already whole at birth. Our soul and itswisdom are present and available.</p><p>I do not wish to imply that the brain has no need to develop andtrain itself. Of course it does. Furthermore, all kinds of talents need tobe developed so that they reach maturation and perfection.</p><p>Due to pseudoscientific research (and mostly due to vestedcommercial interests), we as parents are overloaded with "educational"games for our babies. On all fronts, we are advised to start with theirdevelopment as quickly as possible.</p><p>I am not in favor of this. It is unnecessary, and experience shows thatthe longer babies can play, the quicker and better they develop later on.This focus on early development does have some positive aspects.</p><p>When the development of the intelligence of a baby is started at a veryyoung age and applied diligently, the child will be years ahead of theirpeers later on at school and in college.</p><p>However, during a baby's first years, a loving and safe environmentis the most important thing because it allows the baby to be himself, tohave lots of time to play, and to enjoy and relax.. That is the best approachand also how the baby will learn the most—yes, just by playing.</p><p>Many geniuses stress the importance of playing and daydreamingin their childhood, and they continue to doo so as...