You Are Your Child's First Teacher

Nowadays parents are bombarded by any number of approaches about how to be with their children. YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER introduces a new way of understanding the human being so that parents can be best equipped to serve as their own children's best teachers. Chapters include: Caring for the Newborn, Helping Your Toddler's Development, The Development of Fantasy and Creative Play, Nourishing Your Child's Imagination, Rhythm and Discipline in Home Life, Readiness for School, and more.

Baldwin, who dealt with childbirth options in Special Delivery ( LJ 5/15/79), here suggests techniques that allow infants and children to grow and learn while maintaining their prenatal connections to the dream world--e.g., using certain colors in the nursery and kinderharps instead of drums for musical training. Her refreshingly clear bias, based on the semi-mystical philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, will appeal to those with New Age leanings. More conservative parents will still find this sensible, informative, and enriching. Child-care workers, too, can profit from this supportive and encouraging advice on integrating youngsters' physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development.
- Nancy M. Laskowski, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
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