The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child Healthy Development from Birth to Adolescence

by Cohen, Donald J.; Mayes, Linda C.

• ISBN13: 9780316794329
• ISBN10: 0316794325
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-25
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

How is a two-year-old's capacity for experiencing emotion different from a five-year-old's? What can and should you do to encourage your child's development of motor skills? Can you stimulate your baby to be smarter? How should you help your child differentiate between right and wrong? The Yale Child Study Center, founded in 1911, is world renowned not only for its contributions to the scientific and clinical understanding of infant and child development but also for bringing the insights of its cutting-edge research directly to parents. The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child is a book that empowers parents to build healthy families in their own way, finding their own style. The authors map out how children develop and what parents do -- often in the most basic of their daily interactions with their children -- to enhance their children's growth. They consider both the child's and the parents' perspectives as they address an extraordinary array of issues and topics, from choosing child care to balancing family and work responsibilities, from coping with bullies to talking with your child about significant life passages such as new siblings, divorce, and death. Unrivaled in its scope and authority, this practical, comforting, easy-to-use guide is steeped in the common sense and compassion that are the hallmarks of the Yale Child Study Center. It is destined to become the standard by which all other books on child development are measured. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Linda C. Mayes, M.D., a developmental pediatrician and psychoanalyst, is the Arnold Gesell Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, where she directs the early-childhood programs Donald J. Cohen, M.D., was the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center; a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; and the director of the Yale Child Study Center

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(4)
Part I Preparing to Be a Parent	7	(78)
The Decision to Become a Parent	9	(9)
The Many Faces of Family	18	(16)
Making Room for Your Baby: Mental Images and Practical Realities	34	(15)
The Course of Pregnancy	49	(12)
Bringing Your Baby Home	61	(15)
Partners: You and Your Pediatrician	76	(9)
Part II The Basics of Child Development	85	(54)
Understanding Your Child's Development	87	(13)
Genetics and Your Child's Development	100	(12)
The Developing Brain	112	(12)
Your Child's Unfolding Mind	124	(15)
Part III Mastering the Body's Basic Functions	139	(60)
Your Baby's Motor Development	141	(16)
Feeding and Eating: Food for the Whole Child	157	(12)
Sleep: Helping Your Child Through the Night	169	(17)
Sexuality and Gender: How Children Come to Know Their Bodies	186	(13)
Part IV Cognitive Development: The Learning Child	199	(96)
How Your Baby Learns: From First Perceptions of the World to Making Sense of It	201	(13)
Child's Play: Child's Work	214	(15)
First Words and Beyond: How Children Discover Language	229	(15)
Sharing Books with Your Child	244	(17)
Off to School: What You Can Expect	261	(16)
Working with Your Child's School: Challenges and Opportunities	277	(18)
Part V Emotional Development: The Social Child	295	(108)
Your Child's Inner World of Feelings	297	(18)
Hard Feelings: Helping Your Young Child Cope with Fear, Worry, and Anger	315	(15)
Children and Violence	330	(13)
Friends: Your Child's Expanding Social World	343	(14)
Exercises for Life: Having Fun and Taking Part	357	(14)
Family Culture: Passing on Traditions	371	(15)
Learning Right from Wrong: Your Child's Moral Development	386	(17)
Part VI Predictable Bumps on the Developmental Path	403	(56)
When Both Parents Work	405	(12)
Choosing Child Care: Day-Care Programs and Nannies	417	(15)
Why Do We Need a New Baby? A Sibling Joins the Family	432	(12)
Anxious Moments: Helping Children and Parents Handle Separations	444	(15)
Part VII The Unpredictable Troubles in a Child's Life	459	(80)
Children's Physical Troubles: Facing Illness, Injury, and Hospitalization	461	(13)
Children's Mental Health Problems	474	(19)
Family Troubles: The Impact of Divorce and Remarriage	493	(16)
A Death in the Family: Helping Your Children Through a Final Loss	509	(15)
On the Threshold: The Flowering of Sexuality	524	(15)
Index	539