Prologue: Parenting Wisdom: Overcoming Parenting Illiteracy
Stories from parents who made parenting special

Chapter 1: The Beginning of Parenting: Understanding Your Relationship with Your Baby

- What is parenting that respects babies?
- Things parents should do immediately after giving birth
- What it means for parents to trust their babies
- Sleep, feeding, and play according to the baby's biological rhythm
- Respect your baby's temperament and self-expression.
- A parenting routine that starts at the same time every morning
Parent-Centered Parenting vs. Baby-Centered Parenting
[SOS! Help, Director] Self-Care Tips for Parents to Survive Chaos
- The effect of parents' voices on babies
- Can I be a good parent?
[SOS! Help, Mom!] How to Deal with Your Baby's Negative Signals
- Parenting styles that deal with a baby's emotions

Chapter 2: Emotional Intelligence Development Begins with Eating Experiences

- What is breastfeeding and weaning that respects the baby?
- Babies learn to express their emotions while eating.
- How can I give my baby the opportunity to eat?
- Behavioral language of a baby who wants to eat and a baby who doesn't want to eat
- Is a baby who eats a lot a good eater?
[SOS! Help, Manager] What if my baby doesn't seem interested in eating?

Chapter 3: Mother's Personal Breastfeeding, Baby's Full Breastfeeding

- Understanding breastfeeding correctly
- Mother's personal breastfeeding
- Full feeding of the baby
- Breastfeeding and communicating with your baby
[SOS! Help, Mom!] How to Communicate While Preparing for Breastfeeding
- 4-step communication method to awaken your baby's emotional intelligence after breastfeeding
Things to consider when you want to give up breastfeeding
- Separate feeding and sleeping for babies who fall asleep while eating
- Night feedings: when and how should I stop?
- The relationship between cessation of night feedings and emotional intelligence development
[SOS! Help, Director] Why Babies Cry at Night
- If the baby refuses to breastfeed due to injection
- Nipple confusion, how to deal with it?
- Weaning wisely
[SOS! Help, Manager] Are you having trouble weaning?

Chapter 4: Creating a Habit of Feeding Completely

- Parents' attitude determines the direction of weaning food.
- Things to do before feeding baby food
[SOS! Help, Director] How to Protect Your Baby's Exploratory Instinct
- Developing self-directed eating skills
- Early: Exploration through touching, tasting, and smelling
- Early: What Parents Should Do
[SOS! Please help, manager] Which is better, a straw or a cup?
- Middle stage: The stage where you put your hand in your mouth, chew it thoroughly, and swallow it.
[SOS! Please help me, sir] If you feel nauseous while eating baby food
- Review: A time to control how much you eat and build confidence.
- If you are hurt by your baby's 'refusal' of baby food
- Interacting with a baby who refuses baby food
[SOS! Help, Manager] How to Deal with a Baby Who Refuses Baby Food

Epilogue: Eating Together Means Living Together

“Even newborn babies have the ability to feed themselves.”
Everything you need to know about parenting from parenting mentor Director Kwak Yun-cheol!

How wonderful would it be if babies ate and slept the same amount at the same time every day? In reality, babies sometimes rest or fall asleep while eating, and even if they eat less today, they might eat more tomorrow.
Having met countless new parents and babies in the childcare field for 26 years, the author emphasizes that “babies have the ability to eat on their own,” and has practiced breastfeeding and weaning education that respects babies.


Many parents think, 'Eat a lot to be healthy.'
However, ‘eating a lot’ does not necessarily mean ‘eating well.’
'Wanbap' also means that the baby does not simply empty a bowl of rice, but takes the initiative in eating by choosing the food he or she wants to eat and stopping when full.
Developing these abilities requires parenting that respects the baby's ability to eat.
《The Secret to Raising a Baby Who Eats Full Meals》 is a four-chapter book that contains realistic solutions to the biggest concerns of new parents: how to start raising a baby immediately after birth and how to feed the baby.
It also includes various case studies of parents whose parenting has become special thanks to the author's coaching.
Reading the stories of parents who have experienced personalized breastfeeding and solid food for the first time can provide deep empathy and confidence.


“A baby's emotional intelligence develops when their eating experience is respected.”
The power of parenting that raises happy babies!

Respecting your baby means giving your baby time to figure things out on his or her own and trusting that you can handle that time.
Through the experience of eating, babies experience feelings of respect and confidence in their ability to do things on their own, and learn how to express their emotions.
Therefore, the first 24 months of life, during which breastfeeding and solid food are introduced, can be said to be a critical period for the development of a baby's emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to manage emotions well.
It includes the ability to recognize one's own emotions, understand the emotions of others, and express and regulate emotions appropriately in social relationships.
In fact, if you look at babies who are breastfeeding or being fed solid food, they move their mouths vigorously when they want to eat, close their mouths tightly or turn their heads away when they are full, and cry when they do not want to eat, clearly showing their refusal.
In this way, babies learn to express who they are and what they want and don't want to do through the process of eating.
Therefore, simply feeding a lot and at the right time, ignoring the baby's reactions and signals, is an action that takes away the baby's learning opportunity.
Chapters 1 and 2 build on this point by specifically explaining what respecting the baby's abilities and needs during breastfeeding and weaning means for the development of emotional intelligence.
In addition, it carefully presents situation-specific conversation methods and behavioral tips on how to read and interact with your baby's emotions.

“When parents trust their babies, they learn to trust themselves.”
Personalized feeding that teaches babies the joy of eating

Chapter 3 covers common challenges parents face, from how to connect with their baby while breastfeeding to breastfeeding refusal, night feedings, and weaning.
In all these situations, we suggest ways to personally resolve them so that the feelings of both parents and babies are not hurt.
Many parents struggle with the choice between breastfeeding and formula feeding.
The author says, “What kind of experiences you share with your baby through breastfeeding is more important than how you breastfeed.”
Breastfeeding is more than just filling your baby's belly; it's a process of forming emotions and relationships.
In this sense, personalized feeding allows parents to trust their baby's ability to eat and allows the baby to become the subject of feeding, listening to the 'hunger' and 'fullness' signals sent by his or her body.

Just as we feel good and comfortable when we eat a lot of food, so does our baby.
Fullness is associated with the emotion of 'satisfaction'.
Parents provide satisfaction to their babies through breastfeeding, and babies perceive the feeding experience as comfortable and enjoyable.
Conversely, if you don't trust your baby and ignore their signals, force them to eat, or stop feeding them, they won't learn the positive emotion of being full, and will have the wrong experience of thinking that 'eating is difficult and uncomfortable.'
The trust and enjoyable experience of breastfeeding will later develop into good eating habits, helping your baby develop self-regulation skills such as eating healthy foods, eating regularly, and satisfying hunger.


"A parent's true role is to wait for their baby."
Developing a habit of eating a full meal through baby food blind dates

Chapter 4 introduces the role of parents and conversation methods in creating a habit of feeding babies in the early, middle, and late stages of weaning.
The author likens baby food to a "blind date between a baby and food."
Just as two people who meet for the first time on a blind date develop interest through conversation, weaning should also be a time for the baby to learn about food.
Therefore, it is important to give your baby enough time to explore the food by looking at it, smelling it, and touching it with his or her hands.


Babies who have been eating on their own since the beginning of weaning will continue to eat well and steadily even in the middle and later stages when the amount of weaning food increases, without the stimulation of YouTube videos or toys.
The experience of choosing and controlling oneself had a positive impact on later eating habits and developing a sense of internal control.
This book explains, through several examples, what parents should say and wait for their babies as they experience the world, and how to communicate in a way that awakens their babies' exploratory instincts without rushing them.
This book will serve as a solid guide for parents who want to communicate affectionately with babies who cannot yet speak.