First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child

by Stanley I. Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

Greenspan outlines the six stages of emotional growth in early childhood and explores the ways in which they are communicated, emphasizing parental interaction as the key to a child's healthy, emotional maturation.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...

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Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 – April 27, 2010)[1] was an American child psychiatrist and clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. He was best known for developing the floortime approach for attempting to treat children with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.[2]

He was Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School,[2] Greenspan was the founding president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center.[3]

Reviews

[Regina · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far I really like this book. It helps parents focus on what really matters and block out all the stuff that really doesn't. It encourages us to use or imagination and intuition to encourage emotional development without too much paranoid speculation about time lines. Simply put there are a few basic life skills that are the basis for everything else to come. Babies must develop curiosity about the world and they must learn to let others sooth them before they can learn to sooth themselves. These 2 skills are the building blocks for everything else and babies learn these 2 skills from their families. Forget Baby Einstein and all that expensive stuff they sell for babies. That stuff is for parents, not babies. All your baby really needs is you, to acknowledge their feelings and stimulate their interest. So far this is the most useful parenting book I have run across. Too bad it appears to be out of print!

[Checkthebook · Rating 5 out of 5]

I re-read this book every time I gave birth to one of my children. I love it and I am so grateful to the authors for writing it. Emotional intelligence is a hot topic now in schools, but this book starts much earlier than school age. The quiet, day-in and day-out emotional bonding with a baby is worth learning about.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great for parents for understanding their child's development and behavior as well as for identifying and problem solving difficulties and issues as a family. I would not recommend reading this book straight through, cover to cover. Instead, read the section that represents the age of your child. Reread as necessary. Hold off on the other sections until your child enters that age group. Emotional development is so much more than it sounds. In fact, it composes the major challenges that families encounter when raising young children. Other areas of development are inextricably intertwined with emotional development. Understand you child's
-behavior,"why is he acting that way?"
-thinking, "why can't I get him to understand? why can't I understand his motivation?"
-development of identity
-process in becoming organized
-relationship with you

[Liz Moore]

left it on a plane; waiting to see if it gets returned.