“Over and over again, cross-cultural research on infancy teaches the exact same lesson: infants can tolerate—and thrive under—care that most any Western parent would assume would end very badly.” Cultural DifferencesChild Rearing Book:Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle Source: Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle
“Seemingly every culture before our own has had a single acceptable way to raise a baby. These cultures wouldn't have cared about the new scientific findings: they already knew how babies worked. Their answers were all very different, mind you, but they had this in common: all the other answers were wrong. Such confidence makes sense. If you have to raise a baby, not study a baby, you'd better settle on an answer, and as long as you have settled on an answer, you may as well be certain about it. Pretty much everyone has been very certain. But if everyone has been very certain, and everyone's certainty has been very different, you start to suspect that there aren't that many certainties after all. There's no one true path. Or put another way: the one true path is forked.” Child RearingFalse Certainty Book:Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle Source: Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle