What Babies and Children Really Need: How Mothers and Fathers Can Nurture Children's Growth for Health and Wellbeing - Softcover

Blythe, Sally Goddard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903458765 ISBN 13: 9781903458761

Publisher: Hawthorn Pr, 2008

Synopsis

This book represents a milestone in our understanding of child development and what parents can do to give their children the best start in life. The author uses the latest scientific research to demonstrate how a baby’s relationship with the mother has a lasting and fundamental impact. She emphasizes ways that changes in society over the past fifty years―such as delayed motherhood, the limited practice of breastfeeding, and mothers’ early return to work―interfere with important developmental milestones that are essential to success and wellbeing in later life.

“We need a state,” says Sally Goddard Blythe, “that gives children their parents and, most of all, gives babies their mothers back.”

What Babies and Children Really Need is an important book for parents of young children.

CONTENTS:

1. Conception and Society: The Politics of Fertility
2. Does Early Development Matter?
3. Events Surrounding Birth
4. Events Following Birth: Risk Factors
5. Breastfeeding
6. Movement Instinct
7. Language Instinct
8. Building on the First Year: The Neuroscience of Developing Emotions
9. Factors Parents Can Control
10. What Needs to Be Done?

About this title

About the Author:

Sally Goddard Blythe is director of The Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology, which researches the effects of neurological dysfunction in specific learning difficulties, and devises effective remedial programs. She is the author of Reflexes Learning and Behaviour as well as numerous professional papers and articles.

Review:

"'This comprehensive book provides parents with the information they need to raise healthy, balanced resilient children... Above all it demonstrates that what babies and children really need is the time, love and attention of the loving adults in their lives.' Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood"

About this edition

• Publisher: Hawthorn Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1903458765
• ISBN 13: 9781903458761
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224