The beauty of RIE is that it specifically says that parents should do what feels best for them. They say take what you like and use it and don't use what you're not comfortable with. It really is common sense parenting and one of their principles is safe environments. If you locked yourself out of your house with your baby inside for 4 hours will your baby be safe?

The only "weird" thing about RIE is that they don't use highchairs, bumbos, excersaucers etc. But that's pretty much because of another principle about respecting the child. If the child can't get into a certain position (stomach, sitting, standing) or into a device on their own then the child should not be put into them etc (that's their belief). This stems from their thinking that the child will become dependent on us and learn that they are incapable without us.

Some of it is a little extreme but for the most part I try to implement as much of it as seems realistic for group care. A lot of their principles come from the attachment theory (not attachment parenting).

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