Harvey Karp Quotations

There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick’s book. Joy, success . . . and health and happiness are just around the corner!

Toddlers are curious ? they want to touch this, taste that, but they can't reach it or ask for it.

This may be the solution to a 3,000-year-old medical mystery of what causes colic.

Social modeling is important. And since a lot of bullying is caused by anger, help your child learn anger-management techniques. Even teaching him simple techniques for breathing to reduce stress can be helpful.

If the 5 S's are done exactly right with just enough vigor, the calming reflex will be turned on and the baby will stop crying. If a parent can get the baby to stop crying they feel like a million bucks, but if they can't they feel miserable. Parents need to be taught how to quiet their babies.