Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

Thomas Berry Brazelton (born May 10 1919) is a noted pediatrician and author in the United States. By the end of the assessment the examiner has a behavioral "portrait" of the infant describing the baby's strengths adaptive responses and possible vulnerabilities. He subsequently served as a Fellow with Professor Jerome Bruner at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University then combined his interests in primary care pediatrics and child psychiatry and in 1972 establiT. Berry Brazeltond the Child Development Unit a pediatric training and research center at Children's Hospital in Boston.

Thomas Berry Brazelton (born May 10 1919) is a noted pediatrician and author in the United States. Many parents know him as the host of a cable television program What Every Baby Knows and as author of a syndicated newspaper column. Major hospitals throughout the world use the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS).