ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects upon the experience of the parents participating in Tempo Lineare. The parents are regularly asked to observe children's interactions with each other, with the staff, and with the parents. Tempo Lineare has the primary aim of improving the relationships of each child, as well those of the parents and the educators. Within Tempo Lineare, one sees the growth of a greater creativity and a greater parental ability to deal with everyday life, feelings, relationships, and to take responsibilities in relation to other people. Tempo Lineare fosters the development of mental space devoted to the certainly beautiful, but also disruptive, experience of bringing up a child. Psychoanalytic and neuroscientific thinking takes it for granted that establishing intimate and emotional relationships is a basic component of the human nature. Children, even the youngest ones, have a natural capacity for perceiving others, a subtle perceptive ability to discern others, and to differentiate linguistic sounds coming from different family members.
