The Science of Parenting: Practical Guidance on Sleep, Crying, Play, and Building Emotional Well-being for Life
Author(s): Margot Sunderland
A thought-provoking introduction to the art of parenting furnishes practical parenting techniques, strategies, advice, and suggestions for every stage in a child's development, bringing together full-color photographs, real-life anecdotes, and tips to help insure a child's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.
Based on over 700 scientific studies into children's development, BMA award-winning author and child psychotherapist Dr. Margot Sunderland explains how to develop your child's potential to the full. Find out the truth about popular childcare tactics, how touch, laughter and play build emotional wellbeing for life, and the strategies for effectively dealing with temper tantrums and tears.
This practical parenting book gives you the facts, not the fiction on the best way to bring up your child, essential for any parent.
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"The author, a child psychologist and director of training at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London, explains the science without losing sight of the realities of raising a child" --Mother & Baby
Author Biography: Margot Sunderland is Director of Education and Training for the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. A child psychotherapist with 20 years experience of working with children and families, she runs Masters degree programmes in Arts and Child Psychotherapy and is the author of more than 20 published books on child mental health. In 2002 she won an award in the Mental Health section of a BMA (British Medical Association) Book Competition. Margot lives in London.
General Fields
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- : Dorling Kindersley
- : Dorling Kindersley
- : September 2008
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Margot Sunderland
- : Paperback
- : 649.1
- : 288
- : illustrations
