Description
Raising Happy Healthy Children is a fully-updated second edition of What Children and Babies Really Need. With new information carefully added, this book examines the crucial early years from a child’s perspective. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives.
- Latest research about pre-conceptual, baby and child development.
- How social changes have unleashed a crisis in the experience of childhood.
- The crucial early years and child development from the child’s perspective
- How parents can give their child the best start in life.
- The importance of motherhood.
‘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.’— Marie Peacock, former Chair of MAHM (Mothers At Home Matter), from the Foreword
Author
Sally Goddard Blythe is Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology. She researches the relationship between physical development and learning. Her remedial programmes help transform children’s learning through movement.
Her widely translated books include The Well Balanced Child, The Genius of Natural Childhood, Movement: Your Child’s First Language and Reflexes, Movement, Learning & Behaviour from Hawthorn Press, and Attention Balance and Coordination, The ABC of Learning Success.
