If this little child [the newborn] has a psychic life, his birth must be a very impressive experience, a very difficult experience. He has to make a...

We can see that the newborn child needs great care. We must be very caring and also be full of wisdom. We must not say, ‘This is a newborn child,’...

Now we must learn how to care for the newborn child. We must welcome him with love and respect...

The newborn must make a great effort to adapt to the external world. He is not yet conscious. Consider for a moment this sudden change of environment...

We must change our treatment of this newborn man. We must pave his passage from one world to another with great care. A new spirit has come into the...

The child in this beginning needs close communication with the maternal body which has a special love for it. Look at mammals. They hide their young...

The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the outside world and to absorb it.... By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own...

In the mysterious period which follows immediately after birth, the child -who is a psychic entity endowed with a specially refined form of...

...the tiny child's absorbent mind finds all its nutriment in its surroundings. Here it has to locate itself, and build itself up from what it takes...

Psychically speaking, at birth there is nothing at all—zero! Indeed, not only psychically, for at birth the child is almost paralytic... These great...