Value in traditional baby tips: professor - From: AAP - January
07, 2013 PRAMS should be pushed aside in favour of carrying
babies upright to aid quicker development, says a lauded
scientist. Traditional child-rearing techniques dating back to
primitive tribes can offer valuable tips for modern parenting,
Pulitzer prize-winning professor Jared Diamond said in his new
book, The World Until Yesterday. Quickly comforting a crying
baby, letting babies sleep next to their parents, regular
physical contact, and carrying them upright facing outwards "may
result in a more self-assured child", the US academic wrote. "I
have worked with traditional New Guinea peoples for 50 years,"
Prof Diamond said in an interview published by British tabloid
the Daily Express. "Many other westerners have worked with other
traditional societies, including the pygmies of African
rainforests and the Piraha Indians of Brazil. We are struck by
how emotionally secure, self confident, curious and autonomous
the members of those small-scale