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Touchpoints-Birth to Three

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Touchpoints-Birth to Three by T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua Sparrow is a compassionate guide for parents navigating the early years of childhood. It offers insightful understanding into the predictable developmental leaps and regressions from birth to age three. This fully updated edition expands on emotional, behavioural, and physical growth, addressing modern family challenges and providing invaluable advice on topics such as prematurity, sleep, communication, toilet training, and child safety.
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This book is perfect for parents, prospective parents, and caregivers seeking reassurance and practical wisdom through the first critical years of child development. It also serves as a trusted resource for childcare providers and professionals supporting families during early childhood.

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The completely revised edition of Touchpoints is required reading for anxious parents of babies and small children

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All over the U.S. and in over twenty countries around the world, Touchpoints has become required reading for anxious parents of babies and small children. T. Berry Brazelton's great empathy for the universal concerns of parenthood, and his honesty about the complex feelings it engenders, as well as his uncanny insight into the predictable leaps and regressions of early childhood, have comforted and supported families since its publication in 1992.

In this completely revised edition, Dr. Brazelton introduces new information on physical, emotional, and behavioural development. He also addresses the new stresses on families and fears of children, with a fresh focus on the role of fathers and other caregivers.

This updated volume also offers new insights on prematurity, sleep patterns, early communication, toilet training, co-sleeping, play and learning, SIDS, cognitive development and signs of developmental delay, childcare, asthma, a child's immune system, and safety.

Dr. Sparrow, Brazelton's co-author on several other books, brings a child psychiatrist's insights into the many perennial childhood issues covered in this comprehensive book.

No parent should be without the reassurance and wisdom Touchpoints provides.

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Praised for timeless advice and profound empathy, Touchpoints is heralded by Little Rock Family as offering guidance that remains relevant decades on. The Warwick Beacon recommends it as essential reading for parents and childcare professionals alike. Brain, Child magazine highlights its celebration of each child's individuality, making it especially valuable for parenting children with disabilities.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780738210490

Publisher: Hachette Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 September 2006

Country: United States

Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 171.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 810g

Pages: 528

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. Joshua D. Sparrow, M.D child psychiatrist and supervisor of inpatient psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of Training at the Brazelton Touchpoints centre. He is co-author with Dr. Brazelton of Touchpoints Three to Six and several titles in the Brazelton Way series.

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