ABSTRACT
This chapter observes the growth of children between zero and six years. Tempo Lineare as a testing ground for the children to use their internalised parental capacities and develop them further with the help of their relationships within Tempo Lineare. It conceives the Tempo Lineare school for the older three- to six-year-olds as a place where children can be educated to know themselves and others, to freely think and express themselves, to participate in school life so that they can build a democracy of differences. The chapter observes that, when a baby avoids the mother's gaze, the baby is aware that the mother finds the intimacy of the baby's gaze difficult to bear. Only after this difficulty between mother and baby is resolved does the baby find he can become more intensely involved with his mother.
