To Listen to a Child: Understanding the Normal Problems of Growing Up

Brazelton, T. Berry

ISBN 10: 0201632705 / ISBN 13: 9780201632705

Published by Da Capo Pr, 1992

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reprint edition. 192 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To Listen to a Child: Understanding the Normal Problems of Growing Up
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201632705
• ISBN 13: 9780201632705
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital Boston, is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development at Brown University. He is a famed advocate for children, and his many other internationally acclaimed books for parents include To Listen to a Child, Infants and Mothers, and, with Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., The Irreducible Needs of Children.