Janet Lansbury, the go-to parenting expert behind the #1 podcast Unruffled and author of No Bad Kids, joins us with her essential guide to caring for, understanding, comforting, and bonding with infants and toddlers.
About the Book
Most parenting books focus on what to do with and for your baby. Baby Person invites you to consider how you see your child in the first place: rather than a blank slate you must mold and shape, your baby is a thinking, expressive person, capable of being in relationship with you from birth. In pioneering infant and child expert Janet Lansbury’s warm and eminently helpful hands, this is more than just an ideology; Baby Person makes it actionable.
Drawing on the central tenets of the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) philosophy, as well as Lansbury’s thirty-plus years working with families and being a parent herself, Baby Person gives parents the tools to deal confidently with the pressure points they face every day—from helping a child sleep peacefully and eat readily to encouraging them to accept and even appreciate boundaries. With sound advice on everything from tantrums to potty training, Lansbury guides caregivers through these early years with tools that alleviate anxiety and promote joyful connection, giving parents the permission to worry less and enjoy the relationship—and their role in it—more.
A guide sure to be cherished by readers everywhere, Baby Person will reframe the way a whole generation relates to the young people in their lives, becoming the calm and emotionally present caregivers they want to be now and beyond the tender first few years.
About the Speakers
Janet Lansbury is a parenting teacher and consultant whose blog is read by millions annually. Her podcast, Janet Lansbury Unruffled, is one of the all-time most downloaded parenting podcasts. Trained by Magda Gerber in her Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) philosophy, Lansbury has more than thirty years of hands-on experience working with parents and their infants and toddlers. The author of No Bad Kids and Elevating Child Care, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, with whom she has three grown children.
Ruth Whippman is a British author, journalist, and cultural critic living in Berkeley. A former BBC documentary director and producer, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Time magazine, New York magazine, The Guardian, HuffPost, and elsewhere. Fortune described her as one of the “25 sharpest minds” of the decade. Whippman is the author of America the Anxious, which was a New York Post Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity.
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