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What Babies and Children Really Need

This book represents a milestone in our understanding of child development and what parents can do to give their children the best start in life. The author uses the latest scientific research to demonstrate how a baby’s relationship with the mother has a lasting and fundamental impact. She emphasizes ways that changes in society over the past fifty years—such as delayed motherhood, the limited practice of breastfeeding, and mothers’ early return to work—interfere with important developmental milestones that are essential to success and well being in later life.

“We need a state,” says Sally Goddard Blythe, “that gives children their parents and, most of all, gives babies their mothers back.”

What Babies and Children Really Need is an important book for parents of young children.

Contents:

• Conception and Society: The Politics of Fertility
• Does Early Development Matter?
• Events Surrounding Birth
• Events Following Birth: Risk Factors
• Breastfeeding
• Movement Instinct
• Language Instinct
• Building on the First Year: The Neuroscience of Developing Emotions
• Factors Parents Can Control
• What Needs to Be Done?

On Reading and Writing

In these meditations on hand and eye, attention and uprightness, light and sound, death and resurrection, Karl König attempts to reveal the phenomena out of which writing and reading manifest - or fail to develop.

König's observations lead directly to pathways of education. He notes correctly that the extreme modern pressures on children to achieve types of literacy can often stunt the development of healthy imagination, feeling and willing. All teachers and interested parents will want to read this remarkable book -- it's depth and accessibility will not only increase your awareness of the phenomena of reading and writing, I believe you'll find that König's presentation will open your heart as well. This is an amazing work.