It advocates showing respect for a baby’s experience and encourages parents to treat their children as active participants rather than passive objects.
They included Hollywood stars Tobey Maguire, Penélope Cruz,[4] Helen Hunt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Alexander, and Felicity Huffman and her husband William H. Macy,[5] as well as fashion designer Minnie Mortimer and her husband, screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, and L.A. Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
The organization also has outposts in New York, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Boulder, Tulsa, Tampa and Melbourne, Fla., as well as in Alberta and Ontario.
[3] In October 2010, the method went mainstream as RIE teaching materials arrived at 1,700 federally funded Early Head Start programs for families with infants and toddlers nationally.
[1] RIE opposes the trend of helicopter parenting and advises "stepping back and giving your baby a chance to develop at her own pace rather than constantly bothering her with stimulating activities and educational toys".
[5] This is achieved by interpreting cries as communication, rather than alarms; by making a safe, quiet environment filled with simple toys that promote active imaginations (no mobiles or TVs); and by taking a backseat instead of steering the baby toward a certain place or goal.