The answer is to dress your baby just as you would dress yourself (except that you’re probably not going to wear any of those cute little booties), plus one layer.

Over the past few decades, Chess and Thomas’s original research in temperament has been expanded, refined, and improved upon by all sorts of people. But it’s still the gold standard and one thing that has remained constant is how learning to recognize and accept your baby’s temperament can truly change your life by helping you to accept her (as wel

her to be highly sensitive to one sensation (bright lights, for example) but not at all sensitive to another (noise). 8. Distractibility: How easy it is to change the focus of your baby’s attention. 9. Persistence: Similar to Distractibility, but goes beyond the initial reaction and concerns the length of time your baby will spend trying to overcom

So you’ve got a very Zen choice to make: you can either learn to accept change and bend, or you can break. It took a while, but I eventually learned that trying to be a father and Mr. Prompt at the same time just wasn’t going to work. Most of the men I’ve interviewed have said basically the same thing: since becoming dads, they’d learned to be a lo

On sunny days, use the groundhog test: if your shadow is longer than you are tall, it’s okay to come out (as long as you follow the other precautions in this section). If your shadow is shorter than you are, though, turn around and go right back into the house.

Carry your baby more. The more you hold him (even when he’s not crying), the less likely he is to cry. In one study, researchers found that a two-hour increase in carrying time per day resulted in a 42 percent decrease in crying time.