Encourage parents to recognize their infant's individuality. Infants enter the world with distinct personalities. Emphasize the importance of private time with infants. Private time can include activities such as bathing, dressing, diapering, feeding, and playing. These are times parents can focus solely on their infants.
Parents often overlook infants' subtle ways of communicating.
In addition, crying, frowning, and looking away are not personal attacks on the parents. Infants are expressing their emotions and needs. Prior to an infant's self-regulation of external stimuli, parents are responsible. Explain the need for parents to provide the appropriate amount of stimulation for their infants. Demonstrate the difference between too much and too little stimuli.