Your Baby and Child

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Posted by: stak
Tags: book2019
Posted on: 2019-09-14 05:38:28

Book #27 of 2019 is Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach. I was recommended the book on the grounds that it explained child development processes, which is something I am very interested in. Sadly this turned out not to be the case, but is just another opinionated/prescriptive parenting book from which you have to tease out the development process yourself.

That being said, it's a pretty comprehensive book and covers a lot of ground (I just skimmed some of it, specially the later sections). I did like how it splits the material into different stages (newborn/settled baby/toddler/child/etc.) rather than use explicit age ranges, because those age ranges vary a lot in practice. But the book is dated, and some of the material is no longer "best practice" or has been rejected by the latest scientific research. And that material is mixed in with everything else, so it's hard to take anything the book says at face value.

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Home Blog Snippets About All timestamps are based on your local time of:	Posted by: stak Tags: book2019 Posted on: 2019-09-14 05:38:28 Book #27 of 2019 is Your Baby and Child by Penelope Leach. I was recommended the book on the grounds that it explained child development processes, which is something I am very interested in. Sadly this turned out not to be the case, but is just another opinionated/prescriptive parenting book from which you have to tease out the development process yourself. That being said, it's a pretty comprehensive book and covers a lot of ground (I just skimmed some of it, specially the later sections). I did like how it splits the material into different stages (newborn/settled baby/toddler/child/etc.) rather than use explicit age ranges, because those age ranges vary a lot in practice. But the book is dated, and some of the material is no longer "best practice" or has been rejected by the latest scientific research. And that material is mixed in with everything else, so it's hard to take anything the book says at face value. [ Add a new comment ]

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