All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

This is a small degree of training, but it's not learning because the baby is not really conscious of the bowel movement or of what she herself is doing,

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.