Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five

About this book

This newest edition of Penelope Leachs much-loved trusted and comprehensive classican international best seller for twenty-five years with nearly two million copies sold in America aloneencompasses the latest research and thinking on child development and learning and reflects the realities of todays changing lifestyles. In her authoritative and practical style Leach responds fully to parents every concern about the psychological emotional and physical well-being of their children. She describes in easy-to-follow stages from birth through starting school how children develop: what they are doing experiencing and feeling. And she tackles both the questions parents often askWhat does a new babys wakefulness or a toddlers tantrum mean?and those that are more difficult: How should new parents time their return to work choose day care tell a child about a new baby or an impending divorce? Whatever the concern or question Your Baby and Child supplies the information encouragement and reassurance every parent-to-be or new parent needs.