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Knowledge is a core need for the infant. Learning that leads to knowledge is an experience which generates (shared) pleasure, but also raises anxieties, painful emotions, and narcissistic sufferings, as well as fantasies that may inhibit the curiosity that supports and nourishes the infant. The learning experience calls for an involved form of parenting that must be attentive to the effects and issues that characterize the process of knowledge. It requires a rhythm in the integration of the experiences and the apprehension of the world. It is up to first external and then internal parenting to guarantee this rhythm.