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Message from the Pikler/Lóczy Fund USA Board of Directors

On behalf of the PLUSA Board of Directors, we would like to thank all of you for writing to the Hungarian government about how the Pikler Institute has influenced your work with children and professionals in the early childhood field all over the world. In this newsletter, we have reprinted some of your remarks. Please go to our website to read some of the letters in their entirety. Although the Pikler Institute is now closed, PLUSA is continuing its work. The Pikler Associations around the world are growing stronger and more committed than ever. continued . . .

Read "Being with Babies" by Anna Tardos.

Concepts and Practices of the Pikler Approach

The principles of Dr. Emmi Pikle's approach to raising healthy babies: This approach is based on renowned Hungarian pediatrician Emmi Pikler's research into gross motor development and emphasizes treating babies with respect, i.e. telling them what you are going to do before you do it encouraging them to participate in their own care and supporting them to solve their own problems.

It is said that in Budapest, "Pikler babies" can be recognized even when they are older because they move with grace and freedom. Dr. Pikler believed this is because they were not sat up before they were ready to move into a sitting position on their own, were not walked by having their hands held but were allowed to learn to walk at their own pace, and were not strapped into swings and infant seats, but were allowed to move naturally and at will and freely and allowed to spontaneously follow their own in-born developmental time-table. Read more about the Pickler approach . . . or the recent article in"The Signal" the newsletter of the World Association for Infant Mental Health.

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