Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five

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.