ABSTRACT
Parenting is a complex, multifactorial, and dynamic phenomenon, often too difficult to study without reductionistic restrictions to experimental approaches. Therefore evidence of new factors that may contribute to parenting tests the limits of scientific patience, particularly if acknowledging its relevance also necessitates the conclusion that a central aspect has been overlooked in the wealth of accumulated findings. This seems to be true in the case of intuitive parenting. Conversely, intuitive parenting appears most effective in relation to infancy, a developmental period that still seems to hide sources of surprise and to demand full scientific attention.
