Parenting the Fussy Baby and the High-Need Child: Everything You Need to Know - From Birth to Age Five Martha Sears (Contributor), William M. Sears Paperback Published by Little Brown & Co Publication date: September 1996 Dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x 9.17 x 7.49 ISBN: 0316779164 Order This Book

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The bestselling authors of "The Baby Book" present a reassuring and wonderfully practical guide for parents of fussy babies and difficult children. Some helpful hints include proven baby calmers, a checklist of medical factors parents should watch for, sound advice on discipline, and much more.

KidSource Review

This is one of those insightful books that could only have been written by someone who has lived through a challenging experience. The author, Dr. William Sears, wrote this book after his fourth child proved to be significantly different and much, much fussier than his others. He and his co-author wife changed their way of thinking about high-needs children when discovered that the "tried and true" methods did not work. Each chapter contains practical and explicit advice about what to do and how to cope. It's very sensitively written and has many personal stories to illustrate the key points. If you have a high-needs child, then this book will be indispensible for you and your family.

From the Back Cover

Does your baby fuss, cry, and want to be held all the time? Do you have an older child who's stubborn, opinionated, demanding - a real handful? Take heart. America's favorite childcare experts - the authors of The Baby Book and The Discipline Book - have written a book just for you. Drawing on more than twenty years of pediatric practice and their experiences with their own high-need children, William and Martha Sears provide:

• Creative ways to soothe a fussy baby, including a checklist of 36 timetested baby-calmers
• Methods for feeding high-need children and helping them go to sleep - and stay asleep
• Survival tips for parents - including advice on how to avoid or recover from "mother burnout"
• Information on medical causes of infant fussiness - from infections to food sensitivities
• Effective ways of coping with common high-need personality traits and behavior - including older children who are highly creative, hyperresponsive, or constantly in need of affirmation
• Proven strategies for discipline - getting connected to your child early, providing structure, setting limits, knowing when to say yes and when to say no
• Tips on learning how to talk and listen - from understanding your child's viewpoint and holding your childs attention to encouraging comphance before defiance
• Real-life stories and advice from parents of high-need children

In Parenting the Fussy Baby and High-Need Child, William and Martha Sears acknowledge the difficulties you face but show you how responsive parenting can turn these challenges into advantages for both you and your child. They demonstrate that despite tough beginnings, these children develop wonderful sensitivity, confidence, trust, and other desirable qualities. In fact, the Searses prove that difficult children can provide the most rewarding parenting experiences of all.

Trained at Harvard Medical School's Children's Hospital and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, William Sears, M.D., is Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. He has practiced pediatrics for more than twenty years and with his wife, Martha, a registered nurse and certified childbirth educator, is the author of fourteen books, including The Baby Book, TheBirthBook, The Discipline Book, and SIDS.

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