Child Development category: 2058 books
Positive Discipline for Preschoolers
For Their Early Years--Raising Children Who are Responsible, Respectful, and Resourceful
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Completely updated to report the latest research in child development and learning, Positive Discipline for Preschoolers will teach you how to use methods to raise a child who is responsible, respectful, and resourceful.
Caring for young children is one of the most challenging tasks an adult...
The Gardener and the Carpenter
What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of "good parenting"
Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and...
Developments
Child, Image, Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world? What do cultural representations tell us about the contemporary politics of childhood? What is the political economy of childhood?
This companion volume to Burman's Deconstructing Developmental Psychology helps us to explain...
by Parenting Magazine Editors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
LET THE EDITORS OF PARENTING MAGAZINE HELP YOU
GET THE MOST FROM THE TODDLER YEARS!
Expert guidance and smart, hands-on advice have made PARENTING magazine the preferred child-care resource for today's parents. The PARENTING books offer the same great mix of helpful, practical information and...
by Corinne Aves
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
What challenges do 6-7-year-olds face as they learn new skills and face different social situations? How do their perceptions of the world change? How can we best support them in their move towards greater independence?
This accessible book provides a wealth of information to help parents, educators...
What Kids Buy
The Psychology of Marketing to Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
If you're in the business of marketing or developing products and programs for kids, What Kids Buy and Why belongs in your office.
How can you create outstanding products and programs that will win in the marketplace and in the hearts of kids and parents? Dan S. Acuff and Robert H. Reiher have...
A Practical Guide to Child Psychology
Understand Your Kids and Enjoy Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Embrace the ups and downs of parenting.
Guided by experts in children’s development, explore new approaches to parenting, understand how they can benefit your family and learn how to put them into practice straight away.
Accepting that every child is unique, and that parenting is a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This volume examines the psychological, social-relational, and cultural foundations of the most basic moral commitments. It begins by looking at the seminal writings of Augusto Blasi, whose writings on moral cognition, the development of self-identity, and moral personality have transformed the research...
Your Three-Year-Old
Friend or Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
A three-year-old is a real puzzle to parents, sometimes anxious to please and befriend, sometimes strong-willed and difficult to get along with. At the heart of the three-year-old’s personality is often an emotional insecurity—and this causes a host of problems for parents! Drs. Ames and Ilg,...
The Secret Lives of Toddlers
A Parent's Guide to the Wonderful, Terrible, Fascinating Behavior of Children Ages 1 to 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2004
Why do they rub food in their hair? Why do they want to hear the same book over and over? Why do they love being naked?
Between the ages of one and three, children can be delightful, affectionate, intelligent explorers of their newfound world. They can also be holy terrors. Grounded in up-to-date...
Your Four-Year-Old
Wild and Wonderful
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
What is it about four-year-olds that makes them so lovable? What problems do four-year-olds have? What can they do now that they couldn't do at three? Drs. Ames and Ilg, recognized authorities on child behavior and development, discuss these and scores of other questions unique to four-year-old girls...
Paediatric Biomechanics and Motor Control
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Paediatric Biomechanics and Motor Control brings together the very latest developmental research using biomechanical measurement and analysis techniques and is the first book to focus on biomechanical aspects of child development. The book is divided into four main sections – the biological changes...
The Human Spark
The Science of Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
What makes a human a human? In The Human Spark, pioneering psychologist Jerome Kagan offers an answer in a sweeping narrative of our personal, moral, and cultural development. In this extended meditation on human psychology as well as the methods, successes, and failures of the scientists who study...
The Developing Mind, Second Edition
How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
This bestselling book put the field of interpersonal neurobiology on the map for over 100,000 readers. Daniel J. Siegel goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging...