Caring Science

From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behavior that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's life has been one of innovation and caring. Known internationally for the Touchpoints theory of regression and growth in infants and young children, Brazelton is also credited for bringing the insights of child development into pediatrics, and for his powerful advocacy in Congress.

This is a short, easy-to-understand story of life and death, family and community, health and medicine, and systemic, societal problems. This is a cautionary tale. If you ask my sisters and many others, they would say Hospice was wonderful. People want to believe what the professionals are doing is the right thing to do. I saw things differently. May this book keep your eyes open.

When a little baby bird is found on the ground in her yard, Lilly helps it find her parents. She thinks nothing about it and continues to read her book. The magical Unicorn Doll takes Lilly in a horse-driven carriage to the mighty forest where there are many animals such as elephants, giraffes, antelopes, tigers, lions, monkeys, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, rabbits, and birds! What do you think the animals said to Lilly?