Your Child at Play: Five to Eight Years: Guilding Friendships, Expanding Interests, and Resolving Conflicts - Softcover

Segal PhD, Marilyn; Bardige EdD., Betty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557044015 ISBN 13: 9781557044013

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2000

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 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 obseravtion 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

Insightful, warm, practical ... Dr. Segal's books provide expert knowledge that's a must for every parent. -- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

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

These terrific books are handsome, engaging, and chock-full of practical knowledge about childcare and guidance. -- Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

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

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1557044015
• ISBN 13: 9781557044013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256