Is the parenting approach supported by Emmi Pikler, Magda Gerber, and Janet Lansbury, known as Resources for Infant Educarers, or RIE, safe and helpful to employ? Is it more beneficial than “attachment parenting” which some say can become too accommodating, and more authoritarian parenting styles that appear to some, to border on neglect?

Your point is well taken, that like all other aspects of human culture, standards are conditional, situation-specific, and culturally dependent on time and place, level of sophistication, and ability to share personal experiences and have access to many sources of information. At the same time, as you know, there is heavy manipulation of society and all its institutions by the interlopers, and this serves as a confounding factor to weaken and undermine authoritative opinions by would-be experts, so nothing can truly be trusted to be valid. So why should parenting not be in the same boat where it hasn't been worked out fully in a consistent reliable way to define what truly is humanitarian, and what might be distorted thinking and behavior of parents just following what they experienced as children and observed their parents doing, and so on. As you know, many bad ideas and bad habits get passed down generation after generation, so what is seemingly tried and true may be an ingrained habit, or worse, a manipulation reinstated in all newcomers to the planet to fall in line and carry out a bad idea in what they do without realizing that is what it actually is, even though it is custom and widely accepted and assumed to be state of the art. We can tell you that this approach was divinely inspired and these authors are lightworkers pursuing those approaches, because they know intuitively they are in divine alignment, and the body of work represents a valid and useful body of core recommendations that will serve parents in many ways, and the children blessed by having an open-minded and attentive parent who has been coached to help them have the best balance of needing to be an authority while caring deeply, and sensitive to the needs of the young.