Child Development


The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn--and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
Noticing the potential message in children's behaviors and responding appropriately and respectfully is our aim. Reflecting upon Becky's enclosing and tying-up of her toys, it is clear that she needed the freedom to safely express herself without judgment and for an adult to interact and not interfere. Many adults seek to control children's play or stop them if they see a child playing in ways they deem inappropriate. ...more
Cath Arnold, Schemas in the Early Years

One of the best perks of being a child therapist is that parents think you are awfully clever when their child shows dramatic improvement. Mostly what happens is that the child grew up. He reached a new developmental stage that let him share, control his aggressive impulses, or make a friend.
Michael G. Thompson, Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

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