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The American Academy of
Pediatrics Guide to Your Child's Symptoms has been prepared by a team of the country's
best pediatricians to enable a parent to quickly identify a symptom, learn its possible
cause, and determine how best to proceed, whether it's taking action at home or calling
the pediatrician immediately. The symptoms are listed alphabetically, and the text and
illustrations that accompany each one are arranged in easy-to-follow charts.
Reference Editor's Recommended Book, 12/01/97 (excerpt) Guide to Your Child's Symptoms is a first-rate resource that explains when bed
rest will do and when to get on the phone to your pediatrician.
A. A. Knopf; 560 pages 3rd Rev edition (November 1997)
ISBN:0375400079
Penelope Leach's Your
Baby & Child has been a beloved favorite for years. With this new, revised edition,
Leach has updated her information to reflect new findings in the field of child
development, and to respond to the changing needs of today's families. Each
developmental stage --newborn, settled baby, older baby, toddler, and young child--is
discussed in terms of feeding, teeth and teething, growing, excreting, crying, sleeping,
playing, and everyday care. For each stage, an additional set of appropriate topics is
discussed, including muscle power, speech, child care, and appropriate toys.
Greenspan
outlines the six stages of emotional growth in early childhood and explores the ways in
which they are communicated, emphasizing parental interaction as the key to a child's
healthy, emotional maturation. New parents or even grandparents will better understand how
they can help their baby grow into a confident, emotionally-enriched person. To
better understand the emotions of the older child, read Dr. Greenspan's Playground
Politics : Understanding the Emotional Life of the
School-Age Child
Keith Burridge, Joanne M. Landy
Paperback - 160 pages (November 1997)
Arco Pub.;
ISBN: 0028619846
How can you get your
young child to keep fit? This guide has fifty great
answers! Created by a distinguished educator, this book presents fifty simple, fun,
parent-child activities that can help kids develop good fitness habits. For each activity,
easy-to-follow instructions tell parents what to do, what materials they'll need, how long
the activity will take, and how to encourage the child to want to find out more.
Paperback - 320 pages (April 1998)
M. Evans and Company Inc;
ISBN: 0871318229
"How to Raise a
Healthy Child" provides parents with choices to help their children maintain their
health and offers clues that indicate when some deviation from health is on its way. Dr.
Smith offers advice on handling everything from black eyes to bug bites to cystic fibrosis
to HIV. Includes special sections on emergencies, accidents, poisonings, and first aid. He
encourages parents to become educated about children's health issues and take a more
active role in the medical decisions that occur as a matter of course in child-rearing.
What is the healthiest
diet for an infant? What constitutes a nutritious school lunch? How do I deal with my
adolescent's eating needs and habits? Will my children receive proper nutrients if they
are sick, very athletic, or vegetarians? This authoritative resource answers these and
dozens of other questions, not only presenting the latest scientific knowledge about
nutrition but also providing recipes from famous chefs for delicious and healthy dishes.
The book, written by
physicians and dietitians at the Yale University School of Medicine, an international
leader in pediatric teaching, research, and clinical care, as well as by dietitians,
nurses, and social workers at the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, is the most
authoritative, comprehensive, and informative guide to childhood nutrition
ever produced.
John Wiley & Sons (Sd);
624 pages (October 1990)
ISBN: 0471508683
Examines two aspects of
stress, psychosocial and biological, and their interactions, covering the effect of stress
on the developing brain and at various developmental stages. Covers specific stressors
such as divorce, parental death or illness, abuse, poverty, discrimination and social
violence. Sufficiently non-technical in presentation to appeal to the widest possible
readership.
Addison-Wesley (excerpts)
Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and
their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder,
have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical experience
into a definitive guide to raising a child with special needs. In this essential work they
lay out a complete, step-by-step approach for parents, educators, and others who work with
developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilities--including autism, PDD,
language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADD--the authors offer a
new understanding of the nature of these challenges and also specific ways of helping
children extend their
intellectual and emotional potential.
Paperback - 224 pages 1 Ed edition (March 1998)
Little Brown and Company;
ISBN: 031677873
A unique and encouraging
guide for parents of children with attention deficit disorder. Full of real-life case
histories, this landmark guide is an indispensable resource for every parent with an
A.D.D. child--and one of the only books that focus on the positive side of A.D.D.
Readers comments (excerpts):
Read anything by the Sears. They write with true compassion and respect for children.
Their books make every other parenting guide seem deficient. I can't recommend highly
enough this book as well as their other classics on "attachment parenting":
"The
Baby Book," "The Discipline
Book," and "Nighttime
Parenting: How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep."
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