Bright Toddler: Understand and Stimulate Your Child’s Development
This companion volume to Doctor Woolfson’s Bright Baby covers child development from approximately 15 months to age three. Introductory topics include sibling rivalry, gender differences, childcare arrangements for working parents, a toddler’s way of nonverbal communication, coping with tantrums, eating habits, potty training, bedtime and sleep patterns, dealing with shyness, and encouraging the child’s sense [...]
Understanding Child Development Linking Theory and Practice
Understanding Child Development is refreshingly clear, readable, and user-friendly. With explanations of the key theories and research in all areas of child development, this is the ideal resource for students at Levels 3 and 4 on Foundation and Early Childhood Studies Degrees…. More >>
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Understanding Child Development Linking Theory and Practice
The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids
As an experienced therapist, a parenting expert on television and radio, an award-winning columnist, and a parent, Dr. Jenn Berman provides insightful and informative advice to parents as they guide their children through early childhood. The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids addresses twenty-six of the most important issues that modern parents [...]
How Children Learn
“Children do not need to be made to learn,” Holt maintains, because each is born with what Einstein called “the holy curiosity of inquiry.” For them, learning is as natural as breathing. First published in 1967, How Children Learn has become a classic for parents and teachers, providing an “effective, gentle voice of reason” (Life)…. [...]
Week by Week: Plans for Documenting Children’s Development
WEEK BY WEEK: PLANS FOR DOCUMENTING CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT, Fifth Edition, addresses a dilemma facing pre-service and in-service teachers–how to manage detailed, meaningful documentation on their students’ development and achievements while attending to the other functions necessary to keep children safe and actively involved in learning. This all-purpose guide provides a concrete, systematic plan for recording [...]
Understanding Your Child’s Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral, Social, and Learning Challenges
When should you seek professional help for your child’s behavioral, social, or learning challenges? Understanding Your Child’s Puzzling Behavior is the ultimate resource for assessing your child’s behavior, learning when to intervene, and knowing how to seek further help for a struggling child. Whether a child is dealing with performance issues, anxiety, noncompliance, angry outbursts, [...]
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children’s Development: Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children’s Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child’s subsequent success [...]
An Introduction to Child Development
An Introduction to Child Development, Second Edition has been fully updated and now includes some new chapters. It still provides undergraduate students in psychology and students in other disciplines who undertake the study of child development with a text that provides a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to [...]
Garden Haiku: Raising Your Child with Ancient Wisdom
“Garden Haiku: Raising Your Child with Ancient Wisdom” offers sound parenting advice through the inspiring form of haiku poetry. Lily Wang equates parents with gardeners, whose sole duty it is to nurture tender buds into full bloom. She then gives parents spiritual guidelines for raising happy, respectful, and resourceful children. The simplicity [...]
Playing on the Mother-Ground: Cultural Routines for Children’s Development
Theorists of child development, for the most part, have taken white, middle class, Euro-American children as the norm. These “typical” children, however, are exposed to two major enculturating influences that are by no means common across cultures: formal schooling and parents who consciously attempt to serve as teachers at home. Providing an important contribution toward [...]
The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children
Undertaken at orphanages in Russia, this study tests the role of early social and emotion experience in the development of children. Children were exposed to either multiple caregivers who performed routine duties in a perfunctory manner with minimal interaction or fewer caregivers who were trained to engage in warm, responsive, and developmentally appropriate interactions during [...]
Raising Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide: A Parenting Timeline of What to Do at Every Age and Stage of Your Child’s Development
Rasing Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide is an information-packed guide that leads parents through the ever changing maze of new behaviors, developments, and challenges present in a child’s first six years. It is filled with essential information, expert advice, practical solutions, and key choices to ensure a child’s healthy development for their first [...]
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