Bringing Up Baby: Three Steps to Making Good Decisions in Your Child's First Years - Softcover

Lerner, Claire; Dombro, Amy Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943657784 ISBN 13: 9780943657783

Publisher: Zero to Three, 2004

Synopsis

Parents are faced with hundreds of questions in their child’s first years. Breast or bottle? Comfort a 6-month-old child now or let her cry? Allow some TV or none at all? But how meaningful can the answers be when they’re offered by someone who doesn’t know the parent or the child? Instead of offering answers that apply to "most" families, experienced child-care specialists Claire Lerner and Amy Dombro explain

1. How parents can understand their own parenting style and its effect on their child, 2. How parents can observe their child to understand what she is feeling and thinking, and 3. How to use those observations to make healthy and effective decisions.

With this easy, 3-step approach, parents can learn to become experts on their own child’s healthy development.

About this title

About the Author

Claire Lerner, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker, child development specialist, and Director of Parent Education at ZERO TO THREE, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. Ms. Lerner is a columnist for American Baby Magazine and she is the co-author of ZERO TO THREE’s best-selling parent book, Learning & Growing Together.

Amy Laura Dombro, MS, is the former head of the Infant and Family Center at Bank Street College of Education in New York City. She is the co-author of ZERO TO THREE’s best-selling parent book, Learning & Growing Together and the author of The Ordinary is Extraordinary: How Children Under Three Learn and Sharing the Caring: How to Find the Right Child Care and Make It Work for You and Your Child.

Reviews

At last, here is a parenting book that doesn't claim to have all the answers. New parenthood is challenging enough without having to sort through the vast supply of either redundant or conflicting advice; this clearly written, focused guide to good decision making will help stressed parents of infants find their way. Three steps are defined here: "Develop Self-Awareness," "Tune in to Your Child," and "Make Sensitive and Effective Decisions." Each step is presented briefly, along with examples and questions parents can ask themselves. This approach allows for different parenting styles and a wide variety of children's temperaments, in contrast to many parenting books on the market. The authors, seasoned parents themselves, dispense advice in a sympathetic, calm tone that is especially welcome. No quick fixes are offered here; new parents may feel they lack the time to devote to the introspection recommended here, but those who can muster the energy to peruse this succinct guide may find some relief. Diane Foote
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Edition details

• Publisher: Zero to Three
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0943657784
• ISBN 13: 9780943657783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 155