Child Development category: 2058 books
The Power of Play
Learning What Comes Naturally
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2007
Today's parents often worry that their children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in constant learning, but child development expert David Elkind reassures us that imaginative play goes far to prepare children for academic and social success. Through expert analysis of the research...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Identity is one of the most extensively studied constructs in the social sciences. Yet, despite the wealth of findings across many disciplines, identity researchers remain divided over such enduring fundamental questions as: What exactly is identity, and how do identity processes function? Do people...
by Ellen Key
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A wonderful book on how to rear a child. The author highlights how use of corporal punishment is detrimental to the growth of the child. She also highlights how forcing one's opinion and worse wishes on the child turns the child into a limited human.
The author says that we should lead by example...
by Richard Weissbourd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Harvard psychologist RichardWeissbourd argues incisively that parents—not peers, not television—are the primary shapers of their children’s moral lives. And yet, it is parents’ lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children’s development.
Through...
by Alicia F. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Now updated with new material throughout, Alicia F. Lieberman’s The Emotional Life of the Toddler is the seminal, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three. Hailed as “groundbreaking” by The Boston Globe after its initial publication, the new edition...
Taking Back Childhood
A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
An early childhood development expert shows how to craft a nurturing childhood for your sons and daughters, while minimizing negative societal influences.
Based on early-childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book...
Potty Training
3 Days to Potty Train Any Child Without Driving Everyone Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
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Do you have limited time for potty training and want to get everything done in three days or...
Becoming Who We Are
Temperament and Personality in Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and adjustment across the lifespan? What are its biological underpinnings? From preeminent researcher Mary Rothbart, this work comprehensively...
Special Needs and Services
Philosophy, Programs, and Practices for the Creation of Quality Service for Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Special Needs and Services examines and supports parent participation, training programs, role of play in the physical, mental and social development of children, and community involvement as the basis for effective childcare programs. Includes perspectives from different cultures and needs when considering...
Digital Youth
The Role of Media in Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Equipped with familiarity...
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 1
Basic Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Now part of a two-volume set, the fully revised and updated second edition of *The Wiley-*Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 1: Basic Research provides comprehensive coverage of the basic research relating to infant development.
Updated, fully-revised and expanded, this two-volume...
by Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident...
by Jean Piaget, Barbel Inhelder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Although originally published in France in 1951 this English translation was not published until 1975. The book supplements the authors’ previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts...
Social and Emotional Learning in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
Perspectives, Programs and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Around the globe, there is a growing awareness of the importance of addressing students’ social and emotional development and wellbeing during schooling. Although the bulk of the work in this area has been conducted in North America and Europe, there is now a burgeoning interest in this topic in...