Family - Assorted Topics, Infants & Toddlers

Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year

Name: Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year
Author: Lawrence Kutner
ISBN: 9780380713523

by Lawrence Kutner

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Every week Dr. Larry Kutner's syndicated "Parent & Child" column informs and entertains millions of anxious parents. Kutner's rare talent for culling the most important and effective concepts and methods from the well-established child-care experts and delivering them in his clear, easygoing style has made him a favorite among readers. As both a journalist and a psychologist, he translates the complex and often abstract theories of clinical psychologists into lucid and applicable advice to modern parents. Now with the four-volume Parent & Child Series, Dr. Larry Kutner offers comprehensive, empathetic, and warmly humorous guidance along the demanding, yet richly rewarding, path of successful parenting. Each book focuses on one of the four stages in child development and the attendant concerns particular to each. Kutner's practical advice throughout is founded on an understanding of the mind and emotions of a child. In this first installment, Kutner speaks to expectant and new parents. Few issues have escaped his notice as he addresses a surprisingly exhaustive list of items, beginning with the hopes and fears of prospective parents through to the baby's first words: what to consider in terms of feelings and finances when planning a baby; how to handle atypical family situations such as adoption and blended stepfamilies; the feelings and responsibilities of new fathers and ways for them to get more closely involved; the popular myths of early learning and why to beware the Superbaby Syndrome; the art of effective discipline; understanding your baby's temperament and your own; what to expect and what not to expect in your baby's growth and coordination; how to tackle the challenge of feeding an infant; the difference between "child care" and "day care" and how to find the best; and the process of learning to speak and how to foster it in your baby. Throughout the book, he illuminates his advice with anecdotes from his own experience, comments from respected exp

Covers older parents/adoption/stepfamilies/miscarriages/ emotions of childbirth/early learning/temperament/etc.

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Library Journal

Kutner, a noted child psychologist and New York Times weekly columnist ``Parent and Child'', offers precisely the kind of child care book that expectant and new parents will want to read. His pragmantic and reassuring tone blends common sense, wit, and erudition. Intended to supplement rather than replace more exhaustive child care manuals and developmental guides, his book addresses both traditional and less familiar topics. He includes excellent sections on choosing a child care center for an infant, being an older parent, and introducing a new baby into a blended family. Chapters are deliberately brief with many of the practical suggestions highlighted in boxes, a format that will appeal to bleary-eyed new parents. Kutner skillfully creates a niche amidst the crowd of parenting books with this effort. Essential for all parent-child collections.-- Linda Cullum, Lake Superior State Univ. Lib., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.