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A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior
A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior, There are lots of child development books on the market. But how do readers – especially parents – find practical answers they can trust? A Good Start in Life provides just that.
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  • A Good Start in Life: Understanding Your Child's Brain and Behavior
  • Written by author M.D. Norbert Herschkowitz
  • Published by National Academies Press, June 2002
  • There are lots of child development books on the market. But how do readers – especially parents – find practical answers they can trust? A Good Start in Life provides just that. We all want to do the best we can for our children. Nature has equ
  • We all want to do the best we can for our children. Nature has equipped us with an instinct to protect and nurture. Unfortunately, we have not been provided with universal rules of parenting, and so we look to experts to fill that void. But there's so muc
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Authors

Foreword by Jerome Kagan

Acknowledgements

Introduction


Part One Getting Ready

Life in the Womb

The Brain Takes Shape as It Goes to Work
First Movements
Feeling My Way Around: The Sense of Touch
Can You Hear Me in There?
The View from Inside
What's for Dinner?
Learning in the Womb?
Prenatal Stimulation?
Does a Mother's Stress Affect the Baby?
Signs of Individuality
Ready to Go
To Think About

Birth
The Brainstem's Big Moment
First Things First
The Newborn's Senses
Muscles in Action
A Personalized Nervous System
Ready to Learn
An Interest in People
To Think About


Part Two The First Year

Getting Started
Less Crying and Irritability
Rock-a-bye-Baby
A Welcome Relief
First Visit to the Doctor
How Different Babies Can Be!
Temperament and Parenting
To Think About

Exploring
A World of New Impressions
"Make Way for Baby!"
Memory and Learning
The Appearance of Fear
To Think About

Comfort and Communication
Song without Words
From Sounds to Words
To Think About

Maps and Milestones
The Cerebral Cortex
Beneath the Cortex
Nerve Cells Make Connections
From Perception to Action
Gross Motor Milestones
Fine Motor Milestones
Language Milestones
Play and Daily Milestones


Part Three The Second Year

Two Candles for Emily

Discovering
Getting Around and Getting Into
The Language Explosion
Playing
To Think About

Me and You
It's Me!
How Others Think and Feel
A Budding Idea of Right and Wrong
Linking the Hemispheres
Toddlers and Temperament
To Think About


Part Four Three to Six Years

Six Candles for Emily

Gaining Competence
Mobility and Dexterity
From Scribbling to Writing
Executive Functions
The Starring Role of the Prefrontal Cortex
Memory Has Different Forms
Imagination
The Cortical Areas Communicate
The Big "M": Motivation
To Think About

Living Together
Belonging to a Group
Taking Over the Controls
The Hemispheres Work Together
To Think About

Paths to Personality
Temperament
Gifts in the Cradle: Multiple Intelligences
Nature-Nurture
To Think About

Ten Guideposts for Parents

Glossary

References

Index


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