Two expressions have firmly settled in our modern reality: “the rich also cry” and “why are you so poor if you are so smart.” Success and happiness cannot become friends with each other. And this paradox also penetrated into the upbringing of children. Early education, having experienced its boom, turned out to be not such a sure recipe for success, and the theory of a happy, carefree childhood, again, does not guarantee happiness in life. So how to build a person’s life before and after his third birthday, so as not to deprive him of his childhood and not turn him away from teachings of everyone forever? Psychologist Galina Momot offers an option for early development in a playful way instead of early learning in the form of classes and lessons. At the same time, great attention is paid to such factors as support, uniqueness, motivation, zone of proximal development, self-esteem, respect and control. That is, all those things that we traditionally attribute to education, and not to development. It turns out that in a baby’s life everything is interconnected and very strong.