To Listen to a Child: understanding the normal problems of growing up

by T. Berry Brazelton

Fears, feeding, and sleep problems, croup and tantrums, stomachaches, asthma: these are some of the problems that every parent worries about at one time or another. According to Dr. Brazelton, most of these are a normal part of growing up. Only if parents add their own anxieties to the child's natural drive toward master will these "normal problems" become laden with guilt and tension and deepen into chronic issues. If parents can learn to listen, to hear the stress that may lie behind psychosomatic complaints, they can not only remove some of the excess pressures, but also help their children toward self-understanding.

Genres: Parenting, Psychology, Nonfiction

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 1984

About the author

Thomas Berry Brazelton was an American pediatrician, author, and the developer of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS).

Reviews

[Susana Fernandes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Livro explicativo de determinados problemas associados aos vários estados de desenvolvimento das crianças em tenra idade.
Em cada capítulo temos a perspectiva do pediatra que descreve e dá o seu parecer.
Recomendo a pais interessados em saber mais .

[Catarina Lopes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gostei muito

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book.

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though he lived to be almost 100 years old, Brazelton was one of those people in the world who we needed to live for 100 more. His contribution to our understanding of babies and children as complex, feeling, thinking people to be connected with (rather than controlled) was groundbreaking. Many people don't realise that when he first began writing about this in the early 1970's, his work was largely dismissed. It wasn't until the neuroscience research began catching up, that the medical and child development fraternity began to take him seriously. He's now considered a staple in the child development, nursing, pediatric and psychology literature. My own, well-worn edition of this book has been read hundreds of times, and used extensively in my own research and practice over the years. I can't wait to get the newest updated version, which I am sure will have many new passages and contributors linking the late Brazelton's work to the latest research. However, I will always treasure this copy of a book that was written by a man who was not only a visionary and a 'baby whisperer' - but a profoundly gifted baby *listener* and translator for thousands of parents and health workers across the world.