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Touchpoints : Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Developmentby T. Berry, M.D. Brazelton
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Touchpoints : Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Developmentby T. Berry, M.D. Brazelton
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T. Berry Brazelton is a knowledgeable physician with years of experience with thousands of children, and he brings that experience to bear on virtually every issue faced by families with kids, from birth through age 6. In this sterile age of managed care, Brazelton provides the kindly, reassuring approach of your own family physician--a physician living in your own home, on your own bookshelf. Touchpoints provides chronological accounts of the basic stages of early childhood, presents (in alphabetical reference form) the challenges to development, and explores the important role of each person--father, mother, caregiver--in a child's life.
Although this book covers the developmental milestones, it focuses much more on the "whole" baby. That is, the parents themselves, the child's behavior, the parent-child interaction, the relationship of the parents to each other, the mental worrying parents do and why it's important, the emotions and parenting styles that can come into conflict, the physical environment of the child, and numerous other emotional. The value of this book is that it enlightens us as parents and caregivers to the many different types of development that a baby and family go through as a child grows. It also covers some of the potential problems that arise and help us to deal with them in a more understanding manner in relation to a child's natural development.
Based upon over three decades of continuous practice and internationally recognized research, Touchpoints is the only childcare reference by a pediatrician who has both medical and psychoanalytic training, and who offers parents a complete understanding child development from a physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral point of view. No other childcare guide offers supportive, empathetic insights into the parent's own emotions, and no other guide includes both chronological chapters and alphabetical topics on all issues faced by families from conception through age six.
"Touchpoints" are the universal spurts of development and the trying periods of regression that accompany them throughout childhood. Dr. Brazelton uses them as windows to help parents understand their child's behavior and prevent future problems.
Part One: "Touchpoints of Development" is a vivid chronological account of the basic stages of early childhood. Every chapter covers:
| feeding crying temperament social learning stranger awareness discipline |
sleeping learning emotions independence self-image sexuality |
communication motor skills attachment play self-esteem toilet training |
Part Two: "Challenges to Development" is a complete alphabetical reference. Each entry show how to understand, defuse, and prevent potential problems such as:
| allergies bedwetting crying depression discipline divorce fear feeding problems headaches |
hearing problems hyperactivity hypersensitivity hospitalization imaginary friends loss and grief lying and stealing manipulation nightmares |
school readiness self-esteem separation sibling rivalry sleep problems speech problems stomachaches television toilet training |
Part Three: "Allies in Development" explains the important role of each person in your child's life:
| fathers mothers | friends caregivers | grandparents doctor |
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