Her approach to parenting is a commonsense model passed on from generation to generation. She credits her own grandmother with influencing both her childhood and mothering skills, and Hogg encourages parents to take advice from their own relatives. The trend now is back to the nuclear family, which forces us not to pass down family traditions and advice, and leads to an overload of scientific, medical and technical information. And, what babies want most is structure. They like predictability, Hogg explains, and they express confusion by crying.
Stability grows out of a good foundation.
Understanding and communicating with a baby isn't that hard, she says. Treat a baby with respect, interact with the baby and include the baby in your lives. Some parents want to complicate things. They can't believe that it can be so easy. She was once called to the home of a worried mother who couldn't figure out why her baby slept soundly in the bassinet but would cry at the top of her lungs when in the crib.