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Penelope Leach is one of today's foremost authorities on child care, author of the greatly admired Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five, which Dr. T. Berry Brazelton has called "a wonderful book. Well researched, well written and sensitive to both parents' and children's needs in the task of growing up together." Now, with the same authority and understanding, she discusses parents' concerns about children of all ages.
Your Growing Child is an A-to-Z compendium of vital information and comfort for every mother and father—from new parents bringing home their first infant to parents of adolescents soon to strike out on their own. Whether she is telling you what to do when your child suddenly develops a high fever or earache or rash, or suggesting how you might determine the reason behind your eight-year-old's unwillingness to go to school, or helping you deal with your adolescent's developing sexuality, Penelope Leach's full and specific advice always reflects not only the practice of leading medical authorities but her own immense expertise and experience as a child psychologist, her extraordinary sensitivity to the feelings of both child and parent, and her grasp of the realities—financial, professional, and social—of life today.
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Donald Fisher
reviewed Your Growing Child on December 28, 2014 Your Growing Child
I really like this book. It emphasizes a very practical/flexible approach to parenting. The book also includes a lot of really interesting information on mental and emotional development of toddlers that I really appreciated. There are lots of supposedly-real anecdotes about supposedly-real parents dealing with toddler phobias and lost loveys and other issues, that are presented in a format that feels like those conversations that mothers get into with one another all of the time (e.g. My baby refuses to let me feed him with a spoon anymore. What do I do?). This makes the book feel reassuring and helpful, though it doesn't necessarily have clear-cut answers for everything. Most answers have some version of telling you that you should pick your battles carefully and allow yourself to be adaptable, which seems to me to be a more realistic way of parenting then always having mental lists of rules and schedules that are being strictly adhered to (Some of the books seem to want you to be the business-like CEO of you family, and leave out the possibility of staying in your pajamas till noon so that you can blow raspberries on your baby's belly and build block towers to knock down).
One minor gripe-- lots of typos (at least in my edition). As a total snob, I sometimes had trouble giving the book a chance because I was distracted by the errors. (It was compiled by the "editors" of parenting magazine-- why weren't they doing their job?)
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