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Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five (Revised Edition) [Paperback]

Penelope Leach
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Oct 15 1997
Penelope Leach's Your Baby & Child is the most loved, trusted and comprehensive book in its field--with almost two million copies sold in America alone. Newsweek says that it is not only one of the best parenting books, but also "by far the most pleasurable to read."
  
This new version, completely rewritten for a new generation, encompasses the latest research and thinking on child development and learning, and reflects the realities of today's changing lifestyles and new approaches to parenting.  
  
Penelope Leach's authoritative and practical style will reassure, encourage, inform and inspire every parent-to-be and new parent. Your Baby & Child is the baby book that responds fully to every parent's deepest concerns about the psychological and emotional as well as physical well-being of his or her children.
  
Dr. Leach describes--in easy-to-follow stages, from birth through starting school--what is happening to your child, what he or she is doing, experiencing and feeling. She tackles the questions parents often ask and the ones they dare not. Whether your concern is a new baby's wakefulness, a toddler's tantrums, a preschool child's shyness, aggression or nightmares, or how to time your return to work, choose day care or tell a child about a new baby or an impending divorce, the information you need to make your own decisions is right here.

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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

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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.

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Your Baby and Child is written from babies' and children's points of view as far as we can understand them because however the society in which they are brought up changes, and however the demands made on parents may shift and alter, those viewpoints remain relatively stable, vitally important and often neglected. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars timeless reference Jan 12 2013
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A gift for our daughter and son in law who have a 2 year old! Timeless sensible and helpful info.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book all around Dec 27 2002
Format: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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book has outdated information. Aug 31 1999
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars You Don't Need Anything Else
This is such an amazing book. As an expat my support system is very small; it's basically my husband and I and the new baby. Read more
Published on April 17 2009 by Glenn Simon Inc
5.0 out of 5 stars very informative
Excellent book. Penelope Leach addresses all kinds of questions and concerns new parents may have. If you have to own one book on child care, this is it.
Published on Aug 31 2005 by Sameera
4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Reliable Reference for Parents
Even though Penelope Leach lives in England, her ideas and information feel comfortable to me in a small town in Kansas. Read more
Published on Feb 7 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary--but perhaps not for everyone
I found this book to be absolutely extraordinary.

I find myself going back to it over and over again as questions and doubts with my young boy arise. Read more

Published on Jan 27 2004
2.0 out of 5 stars Good information but....
this is such a wordy, boring book to read! The author goes on and on and on with every topic. If you really love to read and have lots of time on your hands and want to delve... Read more
Published on Nov 30 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars Great and "Real"
This book is great!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is very helpfull, it gives great tips that are very "real" when you apply to your kid. Good source of information, too. Read more
Published on Nov 6 2003 by Flavia
5.0 out of 5 stars Must-have for all first time parents
As a first time parent I found this book very helpfull. It shows that all your worries and anxieties are shared with every other parent and that you are not alone. Read more
Published on Sep 19 2003 by Sonja Wende
5.0 out of 5 stars Childcare Guide 101
I received this book from another mother when I had my first child and I didn't really look at it until after my daughter was a year old. Boy, did I miss a lot! Read more
Published on July 31 2003 by "another-working-mother"
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, informative, reassuring
This book kept my attention all the way through, even before I was planning to have a child. Lots of information is presented in a way that keeps it personal and... Read more
Published on May 12 2003 by Mark Gilbert
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful start
I liked this book as good overview of developmental phases, but it is a lot more touchy-feely than her earlier book Babyhood and jumps to judgements very quickly about issues such... Read more
Published on May 4 2003
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