The Yale Child Study Center guide to understanding your child : healthy development from birth to adolescence /
Yale Child Study Centre guide to understanding your child Yale Child Study Centre guide to understanding your child : Healthy development from birth to adolescence Understanding your child
Linda C. Mayes and Donald J. Cohen with John E. Schowalter, and Richard H. Granger ; J. L. Bell, editorial consultant ; W. Rodney Torbert, illustrator.
- First edition.
- xii, 548 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Part I Preparing to be a Parent 7 -- 1. The Decision to Become a Parent 9 -- 2. The Many Faces of Family I8 -- 3. Making Room for Your Baby: Mental Images and Practical Realities 34 -- 4. The Course of Pregnancy 49 -- 5. Bringing Your Baby Home 6i -- 6. Partners: You and Your Pediatrician 76 -- Part II The Basics of Child Development 85 -- 7. Understanding Your Child's Development 87 -- 8. Genetics and Your Child's Development ioo -- 9. The Developing Brain IIz -- 10. Your Child's Unfolding Mind I24 -- Part III Mastering the Body's Basic Functions 139 -- 11. Your Baby's Motor Development 141 -- 12. Feeding and Eating: Food for the Whole Child I57 -- 13. Sleep: Helping Your Child Through the Night 169 -- 14. Sexuality and Gender: How Children Come to Know Their Bodies i86 -- Part IV Cognitive Development: The Learning Child 199 -- 15. How Your Baby Learns: From First Perceptions of the World to Making -- Sense of It 20I -- 16. Child's Play: Child's Work 214 -- 17. First Words and Beyond: How Children Discover Language 229 -- 18. Sharing Books with Your Child 244 -- 19. Off to School: What You Can Expect 26I -- 20. Working with Your Child's School: Challenges and Opportunities 277 -- Part V Emotional Development: The Social Child 295 -- 21. Your Child's Inner World of Feelings 297 -- 22. Hard Feelings: Helping Your Young Child Cope with Fear, Worry, and -- Anger 315 -- 23. Children and Violence 330 -- 24. Friends: Your Child's Expanding Social World 343 -- 25. Exercises for Life: Having Fun and Taking Part 357 -- 26. Family Culture: Passing on Traditions 371 -- 27. Learning Right from Wrong: Your Child's Moral Development 386 -- Part VI Predictable Bumps on the Developmental Path 403 -- 28 When Both Parents Work 405 -- 29. Choosing Child Care: Day-Care Programs and Nannies 417 -- 30. Why Do We Need a New Baby? A Sibling Joins the Family 432 -- 31. Anxious Moments: Helping Children and Parents Handle -- Separations 444 -- PartVII The Unpredictable Troubles in a Child's Life 459 -- 32. Children's Physical Troubles: Facing Illness, Injury, and Hospitaliza- -- tion 461 -- 33 Children's Mental Health Problems 474 -- 34. Family Troubles: The Impact of Divorce and Remarriage 493 -- 35. A Death in the Family: Helping Your Children Through a Final Loss 509 -- 36. On the Threshold: The Flowering of Sexuality 524.
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Child rearing. Child development. Parent and child