Even parents who practice attachment - style parenting
occasionally need a safe place to place
baby when tending to a hot stove, traveling, or
visiting child - free friends.
When her parents
visited her in Brooklyn, after Akash was born, her father claimed an armchair in the living room, quietly combing through the Times,
occasionally tucking a finger under the
baby's chin but behaving as if he were waiting for the time to pass.