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What Every Parent Needs to Know: A Psychologist's Guide to Raising Happy, Nurtured Children
Understand key stages in your child's development and discover effective parenting strategies from experts in education and neuroscience.
What Every Parent Needs to Know delves into the latest research on child brain development and applies it to real-life scenarios that all parents face. This isn't one person's opinion or experience of parenting. Director of Education at the Centre for Child Mental Health, Margot Sunderland, together with research from Professor Jaak Panksepp, who has studied the emotional brain for over 30 years, presents evidence-based strategies for parents looking for trusted information and guidance on how best to raise their family.
Alongside detailed information on how the child's brain works, anatomical illustrations present the science while case studies and Q and As apply the science to everyday situations. Parenting strategies span from sleep training your newborn right through to soothing your 12-year-old, addressing separation, anxiety, social development and more. This book not only focuses on your child's needs but also on yours as a parent with advice on looking after yourself too. New material on child mental health completes this new edition making it the ultimate parenting tome.
What Every Parent Needs to Know delves into the latest research on child brain development and applies it to real-life scenarios that all parents face. This isn't one person's opinion or experience of parenting. Director of Education at the Centre for Child Mental Health, Margot Sunderland, together with research from Professor Jaak Panksepp, who has studied the emotional brain for over 30 years, presents evidence-based strategies for parents looking for trusted information and guidance on how best to raise their family.
Alongside detailed information on how the child's brain works, anatomical illustrations present the science while case studies and Q and As apply the science to everyday situations. Parenting strategies span from sleep training your newborn right through to soothing your 12-year-old, addressing separation, anxiety, social development and more. This book not only focuses on your child's needs but also on yours as a parent with advice on looking after yourself too. New material on child mental health completes this new edition making it the ultimate parenting tome.
320 pages, Hardcover
Published October 5, 2023
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July 24, 2023
Really interesting and thought provoking, it made me realise how important certain interactions are with my kids. Lots of good advice for dealing with difficult behaviour and situations. There were some slightly bizarre claims though, supposedly backed up by research, eg that doing X means your child will be more likely to divorce in later life (surely there are many factors involved in divorce?) and that doing X has been shown to ‘feminise’ your child’s brain ‘with consequences for their sexuality in later life’. I can’t find the direct quotations now and I haven’t looked at the research but those claims stuck with me as a bit far fetched. Such claims kinda discredited the book for me and made me question the author’s credentials.
March 5, 2025
Okay book but the author was jumping ideas a lot. Not a smooth read.
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