Raising Happy Healthy Children: Why Mothering Matters (Early Years)

New
Illustrated
2017
$23.79

Fully updated second edition of What Babies and Children Really Need. Presents convincing research to show how a baby's relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep impact. Recent social changes - such as delayed motherhood, limited uptake of breastfeeding and early return to work - are interfering with the key developmental milestones essential for wellbeing in later life. Sally Goddard Blythe says, `We need a society that gives children their parents, and most of all, gives babies their mothers back.'

Synopsis

Fully updated second edition of What Babies and Children Really Need. Presents convincing research to show how a baby's relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep impact. Recent social changes - such as delayed motherhood, limited uptake of breastfeeding and early return to work - are interfering with the key developmental milestones essential for wellbeing in later life. Sally Goddard Blythe says, `We need a society that gives children their parents, and most of all, gives babies their mothers back.'

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 304
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Published: 27 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 1907359834
ISBN 13: 9781907359835

Media Reviews

This is a fully updated second edition of What Children and Babies Really Need. It includes the latest research about pre-conception, baby and child development and explains how social changes have unleashed a crisis in the experience of childhood. IT really values motherhood, and provides parents (and teachers) with the information needed to support children in these crucial years. Sally takes the child's perspective as she views their development over these crucial early years. She explains the shared physical environ between mother and child - that of `first love', as sympathy - derived from the Greek, meaning `to be affected like another'. This potential relationship between baby and mother after birth, the baby;s `first love affair of life', is described as `unconditional love for its mother'. It is interesting to go on to read how modern living, driven by economic and political agendas, interferes with the natural cycles of fertility and conception making work versus motherhood a critical social question, and how this can detach mothers from motherhood. In my own experience, the glut of information, mostly on the web, and not all of it accurate, also helps detach mothers from the more instinctive approach to parenting. Sally Goddard Blythe's deep research and insights into the pitfalls of modern life, and the threats to natural parenting, and her examples of what can be done to embed the `deep love of motherhood' and its advantages for the growing child, are welcome in this very useful book. I would certainly recommend it to all educators to enable them to support parents and their children. Marie Peacock's endorsement of the book says (this book) provides parents with the information they need to raise healthy, balanced, resilient children. Above all it demonstrates that what babies and children really need is the time, love and attention of the loving adults in their lives. -- Janni Nicol * Kindling issue 32 Autumn/Winter 2017 *

Author Bio

Sally Goddard Blythe is Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology. She researches neurological dysfunction in specific learning difficulties and devises remedial programmes. She is an internationally respected expert on child development and learning.