&gt;  One of the best programmes on offer (...). A class of primary-aged children ‘“adopts” a real live baby for the year (I’m not joking). Every few weeks the baby visits the class with a parent and programme instructor. The kids sit around the baby and start talking about it – Why is she crying? Why is she laughing, or looking back to her mother when reaching for the toy? The children are trying to empathise – to step into the baby’s shoes.<p>Many do this without needing government programmes.  It&#x27;s called family: siblings and cousins.<p>Reinventing the wheel?