The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child: Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence Book

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	3
Part I	Preparing to Be a Parent	7
1	The Decision to Become a Parent	9
2	The Many Faces of Family	18
3	Making Room for Your Baby: Mental Images and Practical Realities	34
4	The Course of Pregnancy	49
5	Bringing Your Baby Home	61
6	Partners: You and Your Pediatrician	76
Part II	The Basics of Child Development	85
7	Understanding Your Child's Development	87
8	Genetics and Your Child's Development	100
9	The Developing Brain	112
10	Your Child's Unfolding Mind	124
Part III	Mastering the Body's Basic Functions	139
11	Your Baby's Motor Development	141
12	Feeding and Eating: Food for the Whole Child	157
13	Sleep: Helping Your Child Through the Night	169
14	Sexuality and Gender: How Children Come to Know Their Bodies	186
Part IV	Cognitive Development: The Learning Child	199
15	How Your Baby Learns: From First Perceptions of the World to Making Sense of It	201
16	Child's Play: Child's Work	214
17	First Words and Beyond: How Children Discover Language	229
18	Sharing Books with Your Child	244
19	Off to School: What You Can Expect	261
20	Working with Your Child's School: Challenges and Opportunities	277
Part V	Emotional Development: The Social Child	295
21	Your Child's Inner World of Feelings	297
22	Hard Feelings: Helping Your Young Child Cope with Fear, Worry, and Anger	315
23	Children and Violence	330
24	Friends: Your Child's Expanding Social World	343
25	Exercises for Life: Having Fun and Taking Part	357
26	Family Culture: Passing on Traditions	371
27	Learning Right from Wrong: Your Child's Moral Development	386
Part VI	Predictable Bumps on the Development Path	403
28	When Both Parents Work	405
29	Choosing Child Care: Day-Care Programs and Nannies	417
30	Why Do We Need a New Baby? A Sibling Joins the Family	432
31	Anxious Moments: Helping Children and Parents Handle Separations	444
Part VII	The Unpredictable Troubles in a Child's Life	459
32	Children's Physical Troubles: Facing Illness, Injury, and Hospitalization	461
33	Children's Mental Health Problems	474
34	Family Troubles: The Impact of Divorce and Remarriage	493
35	A Death in the Family: Helping Your Children Through a Final Loss	509
36	On the Threshold: The Flowering of Sexuality	524
	Index	539