The healthy development from birth to adolescence Mayes, Linda C. creator Cohen, Donald J. Schowalter, John E. Granger, Richard H. Yale University Child Study Center. text mau Boston Little, Brown c2002 2002 1st ed. monographic eng

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xii, 548 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Machine generated contents note: PART I PREPARING TO BE A PARENT 7 -- 1 The Decision to Become a Parent 9 -- 2 The Many Faces of Family I8 -- 3 Making Room for Your Baby: Mental Images and Practical Realities 34 -- 4 The Course of Pregnancy 49 -- 5 Bringing Your Baby Home 6i -- 6 Partners: You and Your Pediatrician 76 -- PART II THE BASICS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT 85 -- 7 Understanding Your Child's Development 87 -- 8 Genetics and Your Child's Development ioo -- 9 The Developing Brain IIz -- 10 Your Child's Unfolding Mind I24 -- PART III MASTERING THE BODY'S BASIC FUNCTIONS 139 -- 11 Your Baby's Motor Development 141 -- 12 Feeding and Eating: Food for the Whole Child I57 -- 13 Sleep: Helping Your Child Through the Night 169 -- 14 Sexuality and Gender: How Children Come to Know Their Bodies i86 -- PART IV COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT: THE LEARNING CHILD 199 -- 15 How Your Baby Learns: From First Perceptions of the World to Making -- Sense of It 20I -- 16 Child's Play: Child's Work 214 -- 17 First Words and Beyond: How Children Discover Language 229 -- 18 Sharing Books with Your Child 244 -- 19 Off to School: What You Can Expect 26I -- 20 Working with Your Child's School: Challenges and Opportunities 277 -- PART V EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE SOCIAL CHILD 295 -- 21 Your Child's Inner World of Feelings 297 -- 22 Hard Feelings: Helping Your Young Child Cope with Fear, Worry, and -- Anger 315 -- 23 Children and Violence 330 -- 24 Friends: Your Child's Expanding Social World 343 -- 25 Exercises for Life: Having Fun and Taking Part 357 -- 26 Family Culture: Passing on Traditions 371 -- 27 Learning Right from Wrong: Your Child's Moral Development 386 -- PARTVI PREDICTABLE BUMPS ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL PATH 403 -- 28 When Both Parents Work 405 -- 29 Choosing Child Care: Day-Care Programs and Nannies 417 -- 30 Why Do We Need a New Baby? A Sibling Joins the Family 432 -- 31 Anxious Moments: Helping Children and Parents Handle -- Separations 444 -- PARTVII THE UNPREDICTABLE TROUBLES IN A CHILD'S LIFE 459 -- 32 Children's Physical Troubles: Facing Illness, Injury, and Hospitaliza- -- tion 461 -- 33 Children's Mental Health Problems 474 -- 34 Family Troubles: The Impact of Divorce and Remarriage 493 -- 35 A Death in the Family: Helping Your Children Through a Final Loss 509 -- 36 On the Threshold: The Flowering of Sexuality 524. Linda C. Mayes and Donald J. Cohen with John E. Schowalter, and Richard H. Granger ; J. L. Bell, editorial consultant ; W. Rodney Torbert, illustrator. Includes index. Child rearing Child development Parent and child HQ769 .M39 2002 649/.1 0316954322 0316794325 (pbk.) 00039116 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/00039116.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/00039116.html DLC 000410 20230621113321.0 11969827