Description
Infant and Child CareThe nine other volumes of this BOOKSHELF are for children. This volume, the tenth, is for parents, especially mothers. It tells you exactly what you will need to know to raise your children healthily and happily at every stage of their growth from birth through adolescence.
Sensible, practical, and up-to-date, Infant and Child Care helps you cope with your children in the world of today and prepare them for the world of tomorrow. Yet, wherever we have found it valuable, we have also relied on the experience and common sense of wise grandmothers.
HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD READ BETTER
To help your children get the most out of the nine volumes intended for them, you must know how to get them to enjoy reading. So, before you read anything else in this volume, read Help Your Child Enjoy Reading, the introductory chapter, by Josette Frank, authority on children's reading for The Child Study Association of America. Here you are guided to just those BOOKSHELF stories, poems, pictures, projects, etc. that will encourage your particular kind of child to get more pleasure out of reading and therefore to be better at it.
HOW TO RAISE CHILDREN FROM BIRTH THROUGH ADOLESCENCE
Following the guide to your children's reading enjoyment are the chapters dealing with a child's growth and showing you how to treat every stage of it. First comes Preparing for the New Baby, then Nine Months of Wonder. Together they give you the warnings as well as the knowledge, confidence, and joy that childbirth merits. In The New Baby in the Family and in The Baby's First Year you get step-by-step advice on every aspect of caring for a new baby-according to today's best professional opinion.
ISBN:0878242007
