Author: Penelope Leach Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd ISBN: 024160429X Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 833
Book Description
Raise young children with their well-being in mind, gaining the confidence to trust your instincts and live by the baby - not by the book. In this new edition of the best-selling guide to childcare, Penelope Leach combines her warmth, wisdom and child psychology expertise with new scientific research on the way that infants react to the world around them. Find guidance on sleeping, feeds, washing and playtime, as well as advice on your baby's physical, intellectual and emotional development through each stage of life, from birth to age five. Learn to respond to your child in a way that will create a happy and harmonious family environment as you communicate and grow together. More than just a guide to childcare, Penelope Leach's supportive approach, anchored in child psychology, is based on the idea that a child's well-being is just as important as any physical need. Explore pages or parenting tips as you explore: - A child's journey from the first few days as a newborn right through to the first days of school - Tips for sleeping, comforting, feeding and teething plus everyday care at each stage - Ideas for playing, learning, muscle power and making sounds Penelope Leach is highly regarded as one of the world's leading writers on parenting. In Your Baby and Child, she effortlessly offers practical childcare advice, perfect for a new generation of parents seeking parental guidance from a trusted child development psychologist, in a down-to-earth writing style.
Author: Lennart Nilsson Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0593157966 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
The miracle of life—for a new generation. The completely revised fifth edition of the beloved classic offers an astonishing glimpse of the world within the womb alongside authoritative advice for expectant parents. Deep inside a woman’s body, a miracle occurs. An egg and sperm meet and a new human being is created. Through the unique photographs of Lennart Nilsson, we see the fascinating process of fertilization unfold and watch as an embryo develops from a tiny cluster of cells into a fetus, growing and maturing day by day until the time comes to meet the world outside the womb. The book also describes pregnancy from a parent's perspective, diving into maternity care, health during pregnancy, prenatal testing, and labor and delivery. First published nearly fifty years ago, A Child Is Born broke astonishing new ground, bringing the magic of pregnancy and birth to life. This is the fifth edition of the beloved international classic, which teams Nilsson’s classic medical photographs with new documentary photographs by Linda Forsell and a revised text by professor Lars Hamberger and midwife Gudrun Abascal.
Author: Marilyn Segal Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks ISBN: 9781557043306 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This easy-to-read, delightfully illustrated book is organized in a month-by-month format. Each chapter begins with a description of the developmental events and advances in play behavior that are likely to occur during that month. A section on play ideas suggests ways that parents can introduce games and activities that capitalize on their babies’ emerging skills. Included are: More than 180 candid photos showing babies, parents, and caregivers at play 400 fun-filled play activities for parent and child to share during daily routines such as mealtime, diapering, bath time, and quiet time A month-by-month overview of a baby’s intellectual, emotional, social, and physical development Suggestions for solving everyday problems centering around sleeping, eating, and crying
Author: American Academy of Pediatrics Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553393820 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 959
Book Description
Covers infant care, provides medical information, guidelines on growth, safety rules, and a discussion of family issues such as adoption, twins, etc.
Author: Rahima Baldwin Publisher: ISBN: 9780890875193 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Nowadays parents are bombarded by any number of approaches about how to be with their children. YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER introduces a new way of understanding the human being so that parents can be best equipped to serve as their own children's best teachers. Chapters include: Caring for the Newborn, Helping Your Toddler's Development, The Development of Fantasy and Creative Play, Nourishing Your Child's Imagination, Rhythm and Discipline in Home Life, Readiness for School, and more.
Author: Kevin Leman Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 0529103036 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of Have a New Kid by Friday comes a call to dads to step up to the plate and become the loving, actively engaged father that a daughter needs for life and relational success. The relationship that matters most to your daughter isn't always the one with her mother—sometimes it's the one with you, Dad. Her self-esteem, choices, behavior, character, and even her ideas about or choice of a marriage partner are all directly tied to you, as the most important representative to her of the male species. In Be the Dad She Needs You to Be Dr. Kevin Leman—internationally-known psychologist, New York Times best-selling author, and father of four daughters—will show you not only how to get the fathering job done and done well, but also how to: Make each daughter feel unique, special, and valued. Discipline the right way . . . when it's needed. Talk turkey about what guys are really thinking. Keep the critical eye at bay. Wave the truce flag when females turn your family room into a battleground. Set your daughter up for life and relational success. With some effort on your part, you can gain the kind of lasting relationship you dream of with your daughter—one based on mutual love and respect. The simple yet profound suggestions in this book will transform you into the kind of man your daughter needs . . . for a lifetime.
Author: Kim O'Neill Publisher: Health Communications, Inc. ISBN: 0757307434 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
The author offers her channeling techniques to help moms-to-be tap into the deep intuitive powers of pregnancy and meet their unborn child before birth.
Author: Bobbi Conner Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN: 9780740709944 Category : Birthdays Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
There's great magic in the small discoveries and accomplishments of a child, but they often slip away unacknowledged in the hustle and bustle of living. Now parents can capture those moments in letters written each year on their child's birthday.The Book of Birthday Letters gives parents a way to record the special events and those precious ordinary ones, then share them years from now with their child. This book provides a place for parents to write down the ordinary-but very important-moments in a child's life. The introduction includes 40 general thought-starters and encourages parents to set aside 30 minutes each year on their child's birthday to write about the child's current life. The book spans from birth to age 21. Wise, witty, and insightful quotes from the author are sprinkled throughout. This is a book that will be passed down through generations.
Author: Penelope Leach
Author: Lennart Nilsson
Author: Marilyn Segal
Author: American Academy of Pediatrics
Author: Christy Howard
Author: Rahima Baldwin
Author: Kevin Leman
Author: Kim O'Neill
Author: Bobbi Conner
Author: Richard Lansdown