It would be marvelously good if my wife and I could give them expert advice they need. The fact is that neither my wife nor I can even remember well enough how we took care of our son when he was a small baby. (In those years our parents gave us lots of help!)
Our son is the only child we have; we haven't obtained much experience of taking care of very little children. So, as you can see, it is necessary for all of us -- my son and his wife, my wife and I -- to refer to a good book, a specialist, or a doctor every now and then, to get whatever information needed. Well, for instance, I've just learned something new from one of the books on the tea table: A 5-month-old baby can practice doing what the photos (below) indicate -- Evidently, Little Bee loves to do such exercises with my help, for a few moments!
By the way, there is an interesting proverb in the Chinese language: "Lao da zhao shu yang; lao er zhao zhu yang!" This familiar saying means that you would raise your first child according to books, the ones teaching how to raise a child. But when raising the second child, you would take it very easy . . . literally, you would raise your second child in the same way as you raise pigs! I hope that when my son and his wife have their 2nd son (or 3rd, 4th, etc) my wife and I will be able to offer good help, just in the same way we love Little Bee.
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