- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Knopf; 3REV edition (Oct 15 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375700005
- ISBN-13: 978-0375700002
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 2.8 x 23 cm
- Shipping Weight: 975 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
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- #28 in Books > Parenting & Families > Parenting > Babies & Toddlers > Infants
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Penelope Leach's Your Baby & Child has been a beloved favorite for years. With this new, revised edition, Leach has updated her information and approach to reflect new findings in the field of child development, and to respond to the changing needs of today's families. Leach has utter respect for children and their parents; she explains development, child care, and parenting concerns clearly and without condescension.
Each developmental stage--newborn, settled baby, older baby, toddler, and young child--is discussed in terms of feeding, teeth and teething, growing, excreting, crying, sleeping, playing, and everyday care. For each stage, an additional set of appropriate topics is discussed, including muscle power, speech, child care, and appropriate toys. Colorful and expressive photos display infant, childhood, and toddler behavior. With her common-sense, child-positive approach, Leach carefully dispels negative parenting attitudes, and teaches readers how to stop, listen, and learn from their children. --Ericka Lutz
From Library Journal
This updated version of the child-rearing standard by renowned British psychologist Leach is touted by the publisher as the "essential guide fully revised for today's family." Although the five chapter subdivisions based on the child's age remain the same, and some of the opening essays on each age are lifted almost verbatim from the 1989 edition (Knopf), critical updates in some areas of concern, such as SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), make this an essential purchase. In addition to physical growth and progress, Leach addresses the psychosocial needs of children. She also includes parent concerns and responses similar to those found in Workman's "What To Expect" series. Public and academic libraries would do well to stock the new version of this primer on children and their development for circulation as well as for the reference shelf.?Lisa Williams, Moline Southeast Lib., Ill.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book all around,
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This review is from: Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five (Revised Edition) (Paperback)
Of the several books on parenting/childcare I've read in preparation for becoming a first-time parent, this is my favorite, the one I come back to time and time again.The content is amazing. Some have described it as "wordy," but I can only say that if you want bullet points, you should look elsewhere. This is well-written, thoughtful communication. Most of the advice is quite balanced and thorough, including large, non-judgmental sections on bottle feeding even though Leach, like all conscientious professionals, is clearly pro-breastfeeding. On some issues she shows a clearer bias, for example circumcision (she disagrees with performing circumcision for other than religious reasons); however, on these issues after further research I have not found her information to be inaccurate. The book is organized into sections based on time periods in the baby's/child's life, and further by various topics of concern within each time period, for example dental care, excretion/toilet training, social development, etc. This is not, however, a book for comprehensive lists of developmental milestones. In addition to the content, the book is very attractive, with full-color photographs, some of them stunningly beautiful, throughout - not the tiny, crude illustrations or fuzzy black-and-white photographs offered in other books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book has outdated information.,
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This review is from: Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five (Revised Edition) (Paperback)
Even though this book has been revised, it still has a great deal of outdated information. I did not read the whole book because I read so many inaccurate things that I became concerned about the content. Example; give your baby pieces of raw carrot or apple long before they are 6 months old. Wrong! Major choking hazzard.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is outdated ! Don't waste your time !,
By A Customer
This review is from: Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five (Revised Edition) (Paperback)
The information in this book is from the fifties, dressed in a modern cover. Don't waste your time. There are far better baby books available !
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