When families attend parenting classes in the UK it is common practice for the children to be left in a creche. But the babies would be central in any course run according to the methods of Magda Gerber.
She argued that parents' first learning came from their babies and no-one else. So her method of running a parenting class would be to show parents to really look out for the non-verbal language of their babies.
The Hungarian-born early childhood specialist was heavily influenced by her friend Emmi Pikler (see box) but after the 1956 uprising she fled to America, where she developed her Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) approach.
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