What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
10 best books like What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Lise Eliot): The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer, Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, The Mindful Child: How to Help Your Kid Manage Stress and Become Happier, Kinder, and More Compassionate, Becoming the Parent You Want To Be, Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason, Work. Pump. Repeat.: The New Mom's Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work, Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby
The Fifth Trimester is your new best friend: a brilliant, tells-it-like-it-is guide that helps moms cope with the demands of the real world after the baby arrives
The first three trimesters (and the fourth--those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the Fifth Trimester is when the working...
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
| Author | Emily Oster |
| ISBN | 0525559256 |
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting
With EXPECTING BETTER, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies....
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
| Author | Harvey Karp |
| ISBN | 0553588729 |
In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents for centuries --an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying.
No wonder pediatricians across the country are praising him and thousands of Los Angeles...
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
| Author | John Medina |
| ISBN | 0979777763 |
What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why...
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
| Author | Jessica Lahey |
| ISBN | 0062299239 |
In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s...
| Author | Susan Kaiser Greenland |
| ISBN | 1416583564 |
The techniques of mindful awareness have helped millions of adults reduce stress in their lives. Now, children—who are under more pressure than ever before—can learn to protect themselves with these well-established methods adapted for their ages. Based on a program affiliated with UCLA,...
| Author | Laura Davis |
| ISBN | 0553067508 |
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies. Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively...
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0743487486 |
Most parenting guides begin with the question "How can we get kids to do what they're told?" — and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking "What do kids need — and how can...
| Author | Jessica Shortall |
| ISBN | 1419718703 |
The practical, relatable, and humorous guide to surviving the difficult, awkward, and rewarding job of being a breastfeeding, working mom.
Meet the frenemy of every working, breastfeeding mother:...
| Author | Shauna L. Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1608828840 |
Raising happy, compassionate, and responsible children requires both love and limits. In Mindful Discipline, internationally recognized mindfulness expert Shauna Shapiro and pediatrician Chris White weave together ancient wisdom and modern science to provide new perspectives...
| Author | Kathy Hirsh-Pasek |
| ISBN | 1594860688 |
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In Einstein Never Used Flashcards highly credentialed child psychologists, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., with Diane Eyer, Ph.D., offer a compelling indictment of the growing trend toward accelerated learning. It's a message...
With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will...
The Emotional Life of the Toddler
| Author | Alicia F. Lieberman |
| ISBN | 0028740173 |
Although a number of books discuss the physical and cognitive abilities of the toddler, Alicia F. Lieberman’s is the first to examine the varied and intense emotional life of children from ages one to three in Emotional Life of the Toddler.
Any parent who has followed an active toddler around...
The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
The "baby bible" of the post-Dr. Spock generation, already embraced by hundreds of thousands of American parents, has now been revised, expanded, and brought thoroughly up-to-date -- with the latest information on everything from diapering to day care, from midwifery to hospital birthing rooms,...
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
| Author | Marc Weissbluth |
| ISBN | 0449004023 |
The child care classic is now totally revised and updated as Dr. Weissbluth, a leading researcher on sleep and children, promotes a revolutionary program to ensure healthy, happy sleep for a child--both at night and during equally important daytime naps. He offers dozens of anecdotes and new case...
Elevating Child Care: A Guide to Respectful Parenting
| Author | Janet Lansbury |
| ISBN | 1499103670 |
Janet Lansbury’s advice on respectful parenting is quoted and shared by millions of readers worldwide. Inspired by the pioneering parenting philosophy of her friend and mentor, Magda Gerber, Janet’s influential voice encourages parents and child care professionals to perceive babies as...
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
| Author | Emily Oster |
| ISBN | 1594204756 |
What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.
Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can...
Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities -- From the Very Start
| Author | Magda Gerber |
| ISBN | 0471178837 |
"At long last -- Magda Gerber's wisdom and spice captured in a book --what a treasure! Now parents and caregivers everywhere can benefit from learning what it means to truly respect babies."
--Janet Gonzalez-Mena, Author of Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers and Dragon Mom"Magda Gerber's approach...
1, 2, 3... the Toddler Years: A Practical Guide for Parents & Caregivers
| Author | Irene Van Der Zande |
| ISBN | 0940953250 |
1,2,3...The Toddler Years offers practical help in an entertaining fashion on the many issues parents and caregivers face as young children experience the toddler years. The true life examples, humorous approach and clear format make the book easy to read and use. These methods have been applied...
Baby Knows Best: Raising a Confident and Resourceful Child, the RIE Way
| Author | Deborah Carlisle Solomon |
| ISBN | 0316219207 |
Raise self-confident, self-reliant children using the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) Approach.
Your baby knows more than you think. That's the heart of the principles and teachings of Magda Gerber, founder of RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers), and Educaring. BABY KNOWS BEST...
Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5
THE MOST UP-TO-DATE, EXPERT ADVICE
FOR MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND CARE PROVIDERS FROM
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
From the most respected organization on child health comes this essential resource for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their children....
Bright From the Start: The Simple, Science-Backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3
| Author | Jill Stamm |
| ISBN | 1592402852 |
A cutting-edge handbook for parents, from a pioneer in infant brain development, that bridges the gap between the most current neuroscience and practical parenting techniques Dr. Jill Stamm's daughter was born almost four months premature, and doctors insisted she would never walk or talk. Now,...
Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Revised and Updated Edition
| Author | Ellyn Satter |
| ISBN | 0923521518 |
I really expected to love it. I think the principle of the division of responsibility is excellent and I really do agree with a lot of her ideas, but the book in itself was weird. The book could have been more concise, there was a lot of repetition. I was annoyed to find sleep advice, though I guess I can see...
Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask
| Author | Dalton Conley |
| ISBN | 1476712654 |
In this eye-opening, witty book, an award-winning scientist offers his unorthodox but highly engaged approach to childrearing—and reveals groundbreaking research and strategies to produce creative and confident children.
All parenting is about experimenting (whether you know...
Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
| Author | Paula Polk Lillard |
| ISBN | 0805211128 |
What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's...
The Wonder Weeks. How to Stimulate Your Baby's Mental Development and Help Him Turn His 10 Predictable, Great, Fussy Phases Into Magical Leaps Forward
| Author | Frans X. Plooij |
| ISBN | 9079208043 |
The Wonder Weeks. How to stimulate your baby's mental development and help him turn his 10 predictable, great, fussy phases into magical leaps forward describes in easy-to-understand terms the incredible developmental changes that all babies go through during the first 20 months of their lives....
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
| Author | Alison Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0688177883 |
This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our...
The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips & Advice on First-Year Maintenance
| Author | Louis Borgenicht |
| ISBN | 1931686238 |
At Last! A Beginner’s Guide to Newborn Baby Technology
You’ve programmed your VCR, you’ve reinstalled Microsoft Windows, you can even check your e-mail on your Palm Pilot. But none of this experience will prepare you for the world’s biggest technological marvel: a newborn baby.
...
| Author | Maria Montessori |
| ISBN | 0805041567 |
In response to the crisis in American education, more than five thousand public and private schools across the nation have adopted the timeless Montessori Method of teaching, of which this book is the cornerstone. Written by the women whose name is synonymous worldwide with child development theory,...
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
| Author | Alison Gopnik |
| ISBN | 0374231966 |
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe...
