A Sympathetic Understanding Of The Child: Birth To Sixteen
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A Sympathetic Understanding Of The Child: Birth To Sixteen

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This unique book is an accessible, "child-centered" introduction to child growth and development. It presents the most up-to-date information in descriptive terms to inform readers about how children look, sound, and behave. Practical and research-based, without being research oriented, it looks at children over small time periods to reveal patterns of growth an

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Paperback, Third Edition, 256 pages
Published by Allyn & Bacon
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David Elkind is an American child psychologist and author. His groundbreaking books The Hurried Child and Miseducation informed early childhood education professionals of the possible dangers of "pushing down" the elementary curriculum into the very early years of a child's life. By doing so, he argued, teachers and parents alike could lapse into developmentally inappropriate instruction...more
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