The Science of Parenting - Softcover

Sunderland, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075663993X ISBN 13: 9780756639938

Publisher: DK, 2008

Synopsis

A thought-provoking introduction to the art of parenting furnishes practical parenting techniques, strategies, advice, and suggestions for every stage in a child's development, bringing together full-color photographs, real-life anecdotes, and tips to help insure a child's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Margot Sunderland is a child psychotherapist with 20 years of working with children and families. She is the author of more than 20 books on child mental health, and her extensive research into the neuroscience of parent-child interactions led to this book.

From Publishers Weekly:

Promoting a research-backed view of the parents-in-charge approach to child rearing, Sunderland's guide is a smart, complete book that never overwhelms. Laid out like a school textbook, with clear organization, copious color photographs and plenty of boldfaced "Key Points," Sunderland's text is upbeat, accessible and encouraging. Advice is both common-sense and well-considered: "each time you help your child think and feel about what he is experiencing, and each time you find the right words for his intense feelings, you are probably helping the development of more sophisticated communication networks in your child's corpus callosum." Sunderland focuses on explaining how the child's underdeveloped brain motivates so-called behavior problems, including "tears and rage" caused when baby's "higher brain is not developed enough to moderate these powerful lower brain systems naturally." One of the most interesting elements of the book is its insight into how a given parenting style affects a child in the long-run, such as the idea that "being left to cry means a child learns that he is abandoned just at the time when he needs help" and can make him vulnerable to depression and anxiety disorders. Easy-to-use and entirely thorough-covering not just baby care, but mom and dad care too-this is an excellent resource for parents, caregivers and other policy makers.
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About this edition

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 075663993X
• ISBN 13: 9780756639938
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288