Your Child at Play: Five to Eight Years; Building Friendships, Expanding Interests, and Resolving Conflicts (More Than 80 Illustrations) {A "Your Child at Play" Series Book}

Marilyn Segal, Ph.D., Betty Bardige, Ph.D. (Authors); Samuel J. Meisels, Ph.D. (Foreword)

ISBN 10: 1557044015 / ISBN 13: 9781557044013

Published by Newmarket Press, New York, 2000

About this Item

242 pp. Flawless copy save a stain on top corner of last three pages.

Seller Inventory # 1iCg0026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Your Child at Play: Five to Eight Years; Building Friendships, Expanding Interests, and Resolving Conflicts (More Than 80 Illustrations) {A "Your Child at Play" Series Book}
• Publisher: Newmarket Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557044015
• ISBN 13: 9781557044013
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Illustrator: Barbara Hooper Sonberg, Nina Phillips, Bob and Claudia Schwebel (Front Cover Photo); Keith and Natalie Goldbaum (Back Cover Photo); M.J. DiMassi (Book Design)
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Child & Family Care and Studies
  • Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
  • Parenting, Child Care, Pediatrics

About this title

Synopsis

Packed with learning activities, games, poems, and recipes, as well as anecdotes and advice, the eight sections focus on:

• Individual Differences and Common Threads (distinguishing between real and pretend; concern with fairness; self-awareness)
  
• The Questions Children Ask (the physical world; the natural world; the social world)
  
• Friends (best friends; controversies and conflicts; sibling play)
  
• Active Play (contact and cuddling; physical feats; sports)
  
• Creative Play (music; art; crafts; storytelling and jokes)
  
• Pretend Play (actor play and dressing up; imaginary playmates; reemergence of pretending)
  
• School Play (reading; writing; arithmetic; collecting facts; science)
  
• Family (attachment and separation; family continuity; traditions)

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.