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I apologize for my long absence from the blog, but I'm a little busy these days and I can not always find time to write ...
I leave, however, some suggestions for readings related to the theme of motherhood and the mother-child relationship.
you again soon to face together the first months of life baby, trying to imagine how the world can be seen through his eyes.

Desmond Morris, "The Child. All because", Essays Oscar Mondadori, pp. 202, € 7.40

After focusing his research on baby animals, the ethologist and anthropologist Desmond Morris has turned his attention to the little man, studied in the neonatal period, one in which the child is totally unconditional. Unaware of the use of the word and the helpless infant, in fact, shows a surprising potential capacity. But only partially know the why of his behavior and understand their reactions to the world around him. By novel combinations between human babies and those of other animal species, Morris explains the reasons for many behaviors of infants. With an air of scientific but also with so much humanity, he answers many questions that plague parents, those relating to the mode of delivery or the timing of the dentition, those on the smile and the baby's crying.

Desmond Morris (Swindon, Whilshire, 1928), noted anthropologist and ethologist, has long been responsible for the mammalian section of the London Zoo. He created successful TV documentaries and published over forty books on human and animal behavior, including major bestseller The Naked Ape (1974) and The Man and His gestures (1981). Oscar in the collection include: The dog, the cat understand, Intimate Behaviour, The Cat, The naked eye and the human zoo.

Marcello Bernardi, Fulvio Scaparro, "The Secret Life of the child. The last notes of a great pediatrician, Bloomsbury Publishing, 94 pgg. 10 €

"Universo colorless, with no lights or shadows, day or night, without borders and limits, uniform, inert, silent and deserted. A place that fills us, a space where we are missing. World property and immutable. The beginning is this. So begins the journey of our life. The range between the limbo of a quiet "not" and the nightmare of a disastrous fall in the anguish of the void. The ineffable and the other one. "

" Marcello Bernardi was for decades the landmark not only for the educational psychology research in our country, but also for generations of parents. The secret life of the child was to be in its intentions, which organized a book and send the results of his tireless research in the form, however, a free exploration of the topic, out of any structural scheme handbook. Bernardi's disappearance in January 2001 has interrupted the work, undertaken with his usual enthusiasm and which remained a part typed. Fulvio Scaparro collected, interpreted and commented on the material: "Compared with no intrusion is what I intended to present the reader with some of the last pages written by Bernardi, accompanied by some of his preparatory notes (...) A theme that has fascinated throughout his life and to whom he approached with the utmost respect, knowing that if the "secret" is to talk, perhaps it makes sense to keep it that way (...) The meeting between us and the children can be realized, surprising and fertile, if we place ourselves in an attitude of large to small opening, maximum availability, ready to put into action those very very sharp senses that allow artists to understand and, perhaps, but not necessarily explain. "

Marcello Bernardi (1922-2001), pediatrician and educator, author of numerous books and writings. Di Bernardi Salani published letters to the parents on the job of raising children (1998), and the tenderness and fear (1996, with Pina Tromellini), recently published in paperback by Tea.


Fulvio Scaparro Adolescent Psychology and has taught at the University of Deviance degli Studi di Milano and developmental psychology in schools of specialization in Pediatrics and Clinical Criminology. Among his recent publications include Vecchi lions and their alliance with the irresistible young (Rizzoli 2003), The summer (Vita e Pensiero, 2003), The want to smile (Frassinelli 2003). He has a column in the Corriere della Sera, where he answers readers on the problems of parent-child relationship.