"I always love it when people say "baby steps!" to imply they're being tentative, when actual baby steps are a great unbalanced, wholehearted, enthusiastic lurch into the unknown." -Olivia Smith @OliveFSmith

My younger brother recently had his first baby, and I was so excited to share everything I have learned as an early childhood educator and as a mom with him. As I though about it, however, all this boiled down to two things:
1. Parenting is the hardest best thing you can do.
2. Learn everything you can about Magda Gerber and RIE.
Okay, so that is cheating a little, because the work of Magda Gerber is vast and deep and so so rich. My brother and his wife are quick studies, however, and as they welcomed their new human into the world, they were already deeply connected to the RIE philosophy, and ready to put these princicples into action.