Secret Language of Children: How to Understand What Your Kids Are Really Saying Book

	Introduction: The Secret Is Out	ix
Part I	The Secret Language of Babies
Chapter 1	Babies Really Can Speak	3
Chapter 2	A New Way to Look at and Listen to Your Baby	17
Chapter 3	How Babies Call for Help	31
Chapter 4	Hand Talk: Talking with Your Baby before He Can Talk	43
Part II	The Secret Language of Your Child's Play
Chapter 5	Play: The Work of Children	57
Chapter 6	Understanding the Language of Your Child's Play	77
Chapter 7	Troublesome Play	93
Chapter 8	Fifteen Minutes of Play a Day: A Prescription for Happier, More Confident Children	107
Part III	The Secret Language of Your Child's Stories and Dreams
Chapter 9	Stories That Never End	131
Chapter 10	Understanding Your Child's Stories and Dreams	147
Chapter 11	The Problems That Stories Can Tell Us	159
Chapter 12	Speaking to Children through the Secret Language of Stories	173
Part IV	The Secret Language of Your Child's Art
Chapter 13	Why Children Express Themselves through Art	189
Chapter 14	Art as Communication between You and Your Child	207
Chapter 15	How to Know When Your Child's Art Is Really a Call for Help	217
Chapter 16	Art to the Rescue	225
Part V	The Secret Language of the Face, Body, and Voice
Chapter 17	Speaking without Words	237
Chapter 18	Read Your Child Like a Book	255
Chapter 19	Does Your Child Know the Secrets of Nonverbal Communication?	271
Chapter 20	Connecting with Your Child and Directing Your Child	285
Part VI	The Seven Secrets of Social Success
Chapter 21	Make Your Child Popular for Life	303
	Epilogue	335
Appendix A	A Quick Guide to Activities	337
	References	341
	Index	343
	About the Author	349