Your Child at Play: Birth to One Year: Discovering the Senses and Learning About the World - Softcover

Segal PhD, Marilyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557043302 ISBN 13: 9781557043306

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Marilyn Segal, Ph.D., the noted developmental psychologist, educator, and researcher specializing in early childhood, is the founder and dean emeritus of the Family and School Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The mother of five children and grandmother of thirteen, she has written nineteen books, including the Your Child at Play series and In Time and With Love. She also produced a nine-part, public-service TV series, To Reach a Child.

Review

A creative and rewarding approach to playing with children. -- Publishers Weekly

A must for parents who want the best for their babies and know that child's play is actually more than fun and games. -- Chattanooga News-Free Press

An excellent resource for your parent library...A series that recognizes the value and importance of playing with children! -- Early Childhood Education Newsline

An informative, illuminating and loving book series. There could be no better companion for parent and child. Dr. Segal provides a lovely framework for parents that will enrich their natural observation of their child in a delightful and very important way. -- Jeree H. Pawl, Ph.D. Director, Infant-Parent Program, University of California, San Francisco

As the mother of a 1-year old, I found this series very readable and down to earth. The play activities described are helpful and useful. The writing style is clear, uncluttered with professional jargon, and suitable for someone with a high school education. -- Nancy L. Loewen, Journal of Nurse-Midwifery

It is a rare series for parents of infants and young children that manages to answer their mounting questions while providing the best expert advice in a warm and accessible format. These terrific books are handsome, engaging, and chock full of practical knowledge about childcare and guidance-what's more, they provide numerous ways for parents and children to have fun as they explore each other's worlds. -- Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

The revised edition of this series is a masterpiece! A treasure of knowledge for parents...Dr. Segal beautifully communicates in words and pictures her vast knowledge and clinical expertise about the magical process contributing to children's growth and development. Every mother, father and child can benefit from the wisdom contained in these magnificent volumes. -- Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D., Director, Mt. Hope Family Center University of Rochester

This delightful series of books, designed to help parents discover, enjoy and enhance development in their young children is long overdue...Undoubtedly a valued resource to parents with young children and the professionals who deal with these parents. -- Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Unusually creative and imaginative...[These books] will not only encourage cognitive growth in the child but also a feeling of closeness between child and parent. The examples given concretely demonstrate what constitutes "quality time" between parent and child. -- Anneliese Korner, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1557043302
• ISBN 13: 9781557043306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352