Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five

This newest edition of Penelope Leach’s much-loved, trusted, and comprehensive classic—an international best seller for twenty-five years, with nearly two million copies sold in America alone—encompasses the latest research and thinking on child development and learning, and reflects the realities of today’s 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 ask—What does a new baby’s wakefulness or a toddler’s 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.

• The Good Sleeper: The Essential Guide to Sleep for Your Baby--and You
• The Essential First Year
• Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five (Revised Edition)
• Touchpoints-Birth to Three
• Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective, Loose-Leaf Version (7th Edition)
• Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, 6th Edition: Birth to Age 5
• The Happiest Baby on the Block; Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
• Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)
• Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities -- From the Very Start
• Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful Parenting