This culture would encourage individuality instead of conformity, because parenting would be seen as an honor instead of a duty. Each child is emotionally healthy at birth. Newborn babies do not fear the dark, or dogs, or imagine monsters lurking outside. Newborns cry when something hurts, like a hungry stomach or wet diapers against tender skin. They do not scheme to be annoying, act out in weird behavior to gain attention, or have nervous habits.
Human babies are like fantastically equipped learning machines .
From the moment they are born, they are imprinting, observing, adapting, and imitating. They q uickly learn facial expressions, tones of voice, and words. Their learning skills will never be as awesome as they are in the first few years of life. Young children process vast amounts of information each day in order to successfully master necessary body skills, at least one language, and complex social behaviors. Psychologists have long insisted that our reactive personality is formed by the age of 5 .