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Hawthorn Press Early Years
Series
Raising Happy Healthy Children Edition 2 of What Babies and Children Really Need
Why Mothering Matters
Paperback
October 2017
9781907359835
More details
- Publisher
Hawthorn Press - Published
6th October 2017 - ISBN 9781907359835
- Pages 304 pp.
- Size 6.14" x 9.25"
$24.00
Raising Happy Healthy Children is a fully updated second edition of What Children and Babies Really Need. With new information carefully added, this book examines the crucial early years from a child’s perspective. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives.
The keys to this development are parents, and in particular mothers. A society which really cares for its children, says Sally Goddard Blythe, values parents, and makes it possible for them to spend time and be actively involved with their children for at least the first two years of life. Raising Happy Healthy Children presents convincing research to show how a baby’s relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep impact. Recent social changes, such as delayed motherhood, juggling of work/life balance, limited uptake of breastfeeding, and use of parent-substitute baby equipment and electronic devices, are interfering with key developmental milestones that are essential for wellbeing in later life. Sally Goddard Blythe says, “We need a society that gives children their parents and, most of all, values motherhood in the early years.”
Includes:
• Latest research about pre-conceptual, baby and child development
• How social changes have unleashed a crisis in the experience of childhood
• The crucial early years and child development from the child’s perspective
• How parents can give their child the best start in life
• The importance of motherhood
“...provides parents with the information they need to raise healthy, balanced, resilient children.... Above all it demonstrates that what babies and children really need is the time, love and attention of the loving adults in their lives.”
—Marie Peacock, former Chair of MAHM (Mothers at Home Matter), from the foreword
C O N T E N T S:
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Conception and Society: The Politics of Fertility
3. Does Early Development Matter?
4. Events Surrounding Birth
5. Events Following Birth—Risky Factors
6. Breastfeeding
7. Movement Instinct
8. Language Instinct
9. Building on the First Year: The Neuroscience behind Regulation of Emotions
10. Factors Parents Can Control
11. From Toddlers to Teens: Why Parenting Matters
12. What Needs to Be Done?
Resources
Bibliography
Index
Sally Goddard Blythe
Sally Goddard Blythe is the author of seven books on variou8s aspects of child development. Her professional life has been dedicated to investigating and remediating underlying physical factors in children presenting with specific learning difficulties and adults suffering from anxiety and panic disorder. Although closely linked to The INPP Method, of which she is currently the international director, her interest in a physical basis for learning and emotional difficulties stems from a broad based education, which began with an interest in the arts and moved over to the sciences. Informed by the many children she has worked with in a practice spanning three decades, she has lectured in many different parts of the world and continues to provide training in The INPP Method to students from all over the world.
