Our goal at Michael Olaf is to support adults as they learn to observe and understand their children, and as they discover the unique gifts, needs and patterns of development of each child. As parents get to know their children at a deeper level, they also get to know and understand themselves in a new way. To become a good parent one must first know oneself, and balance one's personal life, primary relationships, and friendships. As we learn to call forth the best in ourselves, we are able to discover ways to call forth the best in our children. Each child is unique, and there can be no easy recipe for how to treat her.
Intellectual recipes are abundant and contradictory.
The most important advice is to learn to follow the child. The first two years of life are the most important. So here begins the new path, wherein it will not be the professor who teaches the child, but the child who teaches the professor. When a couple is getting ready to have a first child they are about to take on the most important role there is. It is very important to start learning about how to parent, before the child is born.