Epstein's (2012) paper posed the following question: "how should a parent respond to a crying baby?" Although Epstein's (2012) behavioral account of infant crying is excellent, I also find it to be incomplete. Building on this, I present my own contextual account of infant crying and parental caregiving, propose an early developmental pathway to psychological flexibility, and provide my own answer to Epstein's (2012) question. Further, I call for an end to piecemeal behavioral accounts of infant behavior. In order to develop a truly contextual understanding of a particular infant behavior and give appropriate advice on parental responses, we need to look beyond the behavior, beyond the child, and beyond infancy. © 2014 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.
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Whittingham, K. (2014). Parenting in context. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 3(3), 212–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2014.01.001
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