| Title/Author |
Summary |
AGES & STAGES
DR. CHARLES SCHAEFER & THERESA DIGERONIM |
Offers you the benefits of the most current research on child development, featuring helpful tips and techniques to foster your child's maturation. |
BABY MASSAGE
DR. ALAN HEATH & NICKI BAINBRIDGE |
With this book, reinforce the loving bond between parent and child with easy-to-learn massage techniques that soothe and promote well-being. Offers safe and soothing massage, simple techniques, therapeutic routines, and effective massage sequences. |
BABY MASSAGE SOOTHING STROKES FOR HEALTHY GROWTH
SUZANNE REESE |
Helpful photographs demonstrate the precise hand placement, and easy-to-follow instructions explain the benefits of massage for legs, arms, and bodies. Special massages calm your baby to sleep, comfort fussing, relieve tummy troubles, and relax baby after a bath. The stand-up format keeps your hands on your baby, not turning pages. |
BEING A TWIN, HAVING A TWIN
MAXINE B. ROSENBERG |
Real life stories and pictures. |
CHILD DEVELOPMENT: FROM FIVE TO EIGHT
MERIDIAN EDUCATION |
VIDEO - This Meridian Education Corporation video presentation overviews the major physical, emotional and intellectual stages of development for children from birth to elementary school. This video takes a look at the development of a child during the ages from five to eight years old. Included are interviews with a child psychologist and parents of five to eight year olds. (15 minutes) |
CHILD DEVELOPMENT: FROM THREE TO FIVE
MERIDIAN EDUCATION |
VIDEO - This Meridian Education Corporation video presentation overviews the major physical, emotional and intellectual stages of development for children from birth to elementary school. This video takes a look at the development of a child during the ages from three to five years old. Included are interviews with a child psychologist and parents of three to five year olds. (16 minutes) |
CHILD DEVELOPMENT: ONE TO THREE
MERIDIAN EDUCATION |
VIDEO - This Meridian Education Corporation video presentation overviews the major physical, emotional, and intellectual stages of development of children from birth to elementary school. This video takes a look at the development of a child during the ages from one to three. Included are interviews with child psychologist and parents of toddlers. (17 minutes) |
CHILD DEVELOPMENT: PRENATAL TO BIRTH
MERIDIAN EDUCATION CORPORATION |
VIDEO - This video examines, in detail, the stages of pregnancy and fetal development up to birth. Proper prenatal habits such as good nutrition, exercise and medical care are also covered. An expectant mother should follow these suggestions to maintain her own health while assuring that her baby has the best possible head start toward a healthy future. (13 minutes) |
CLIQUES: 8 STEPS TO HELP YOUR CHILD SURVIVE THE SOCIAL JUNGL
CHARLENE GIANNETTI & MARGARET SAGARESE |
This book is more than just a manual for cheering your child on -it brings hope and a truly comprehensive understanding of adolescent society to the millions of families struggling against this divisive force. Within its pages, you will find the tools you need to make a difference. |
HELPING YOUR CHILD LOSE WEIGHT THE HEALTHY WAY
JUDITH LEVINE & LINDA BINE |
In this practical and compassionate guide, nutritionist Judith Levine provides workable strategies that address the specific needs of your child, while fitting into your family's lifestyle. |
I AM YOUR CHILD READY TO LEARN
JAMIE LEE CURTIS & LEVAR BURTON |
This video provides helpful information about: establishing reading routines, the importance of quality childcare, and so much more. |
I AM YOUR CHILD THE FIRST YEARS LAST FOREVER
ROB REINER |
This video includes information on: boding and attachment, communication, discipline, child care, and so much more. |
INFANT MASSAGE
VIMALA MCCLURE |
This book helps you master the techniques of infant massage so you can incorporate this joyful and wonderful healing art into your baby's life. She shows you why a daily massage can be one of the greatest gifts you give your child.....and yourself. |
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE FOR CHILDCARE PROVIDERS
NELSEN AND ERWIN |
This book offers a thorough, practical program that is easily adaptable to any childcare or preschool situation and setting. Inside are workable solutions to many of today's toughest childcare issues and everything you need to develop an enriching experience for children, parents, and workers alike, |
STARTING OUT RIGHT
THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL |
A guide to promoting children's reading success. This book identifies the most important questions and explores the authoritative answers on the topic of how children can grow into readers. |
TOUCHPOINTS THREE TO SIX
BRAZELTON AND SPARROW |
This book follows four children of very different personalities and background through the real-life events of these critical years. Each chapter addresses vital issues of temperament, learning, moral development, and family and school relationships and more. |
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE?
LISE ELIOT |
Charting the brain's development from conception through the first five years, this book is a thought-provoking exploration of the questions critical to every prospective parent. This book is an invaluable contribution to the nature versus nurture debate and shows parents and care givers the innumerable ways in which they can actually help their children grow better brains. |
WHY LOVE MATTERS
SUE GERHARDT |
Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life and how early interactions between babies and their parents have lasting and serious consequences. The author explores how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system and how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being. |
YOUR BABY'S FIRST YEAR WEEK BY WEEK
CURTIS AND SCHULER |
This upbeat book emphasizes well-baby care and how you can encourage your baby's social, emotional, physical and intellectual development. Included in this book are charts and illustrations. |
YOUR CHILD'S GROWING MIND
JANE M. HEALY, PH.D. |
Hailed by parents and educators, YOUR CHILD'S GROWING MIND is a reliable, clearly written guide to learning skills for children. Dr. Healy begins by translating the most current scientific theories on nervous-system development into practical information for parents. She then explains in detail how children develop language and memory, and addresses academic learning - reading writing, spelling, and mathematics. In due course she furnishes a scathing indictment of early pressure on children to read, and provides the first scientifically documented refutation of the "super baby" myth. |
YOUR EIGHT-YEAR-OLD LIVELY AND OUTGOING
LOUISE BATES AMES & CAROL CHASE HABER |
The authors will touch on how parents can help an eight year old through this up-and-down age, what should parents expect in their relationships with the child and how can like in the family be made easier, what will the child's relationships with friends and siblings be like. |
YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD SUNNY AND SERENE
LOUISE BATES AMES & FRANCES ILG |
What stages of development does a child this age go through, and what should parents know that can help their five year old handle this impressionable year? Recognized authorities on child behavior and development, the authors answer these and many other questions, offering both invaluable practical advice and enlightening psychological insights. |
YOUR FOUR-YEAR-OLD WILD AND WONDERFUL
LOUISE BATES AMES & CAROL CHASE HABER |
Offer both practical advice and enlightening psychological insights, the authors help parents understand what is going on inside that four year old head, and what they can expect from the child who is at once wild...and wonderful. |
YOUR NINE-YEAR-OLD THOUGHTFUL AND MYSTERIOUS
LOUISE BATES AMES & CAROL CHASE HABER |
Nine is a tricky age, children are more distant from mother and father, more independent and rely on friends for companionship, or they have a tendency to spend time alone. Nine year olds are hovering on the brink of adolescence, and this in part contributes to their ups-and-down nature. |
YOUR ONE-YEAR-OLD 12 TO 24 MONTHS FUN-LOVING AND FUSSY
AMES, ILG & HABER |
In this book the authors discuss all important questions that concern the twelve to twenty four month old child. They examine the various stages of development between infancy and toddlerhood: what new things the child can do; how the child acts with parents and other people; what the child thinks and feels. |
YOUR SELF CONFIDENT BABY
MAGDA GERBER AND ALLISON JOHNSON |
This book will teach you how to develop your own observational skills, learn when to intervene with your baby and when not to, find ways to connect with your baby through daily caregiving routines such as feeding, diapering, and bathing, and effectively handle common problems such as crying, discipline, sleep issues, and toilet learning. |
YOUR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD LIFE IN A MINOR KEY
LOUISE BATES AMES & CAROL CHASE HABER |
Many seven year olds will have moments of exuberance, security, and happiness, in general this is an age of introspection. The authors offer insights into what children this age are feeling and thinking, and how parents can best deal with these moody, serious sevens. |
YOUR SIX-YEAR-OLD LOVING AND DEFIANT
AMES & ILG |
The six-year-old is a complex child, entirely different from the five-year-old. Six is growing more mature, more independent, more daring and adventurous- this is not necessarily an easy time for the little girl or boy. |
YOUR TEN-TO FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD
AMES, ILG, BAKER |
Parents and adolescents both don't know what to do or how act between wit the adolescent years, those years are undeniable trying and turbulent years for parents and children alike. |
YOUR THREE-YEAR-OLD FRIEND OR ENEMY
AMES, LOUISE BATES & ILG, FRANCES L |
Recognize authorities on child behavior and development, help parents understand what's going on inside that three-year-old head, what problems children have, and how to cope with the toddler who is sometimes friend, sometimes enemy. |
YOUR TWO-YEAR-OLD TERRIBLE OR TENDER
AMES, LOUISE BATES & ILG, FRANCES |
What are two year old girls and boys thinking and feeling? How do they see others around them? With humor and compassion, the authors describe the general characteristics of these complex toddlers: physical growth trends, emotional and psychological maturation, and much more. |
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