ABSTRACT
As baby's capabilities grow, his sense of self also changes. Parents and babies interact differently as the baby becomes mobile and gets a 'mind of his own'. Babies are born with their own temperament, which will effect their behaviour, right from the beginning, which in turn will influence the care they receive. A parent who is in touch can take in feelings of loving and hating, understand them, and help her baby manage them. Babies at the end of the first year start to have a moral sense, a feeling of what is right and wrong, in relation to their parents. This moral sense goes along with the development of the baby's capacity for self-reflection. Once your baby has come to trust in the world as a place that is reliably responsive to him, he will be developing a sense of self as reflected back by that world.
