How do you spell opportunity: i-n-c-o-n-v-e-n-i-e-n-c-e ?
This means gritting our teeth and ignoring the ever undulating cacophony until it subsides. The reality, of course, is that if we don’t want to be inconvenienced, we shouldn’t have a baby.
Once we undertake that commitment, inconvenience is the name of the game and the more we are inconvenienced and meet the challenge, the greater that baby’s chances for fulfillment will be.
Let’s examine what we should do when the baby cries at 12 a.m., and again at 3 a.m.
Vygotsky called the baby’s cry a social act of communication. Here in lies a concept of some importance.
If we respond quickly to the baby’s crying, we are teaching the baby that the vocal mechanism is an excellent tool for communication.
This engenders an underlying positive attitude about oral communication. In addition it provides additional opportunities for the parents to stimulate the child with touch, voice and visual patterns ( e.g. the face).