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A program designed to demonstrate the predictable sequence in which babies grow and develop in their first year of life.

A guide to a baby's weekly development provides information on care, feeding, observing and encouraging cognitive, motor, and social skills, and using toys as educational tools.

Features information on every aspect of infant care, including the treatment of illnesses and infant nutritional requirements, and focuses on a baby's five needs: eating, sleeping, development, health, and comfort.

Should your three-month-old be waking up every two hours during the night? When should you expect your baby to learn to crawl? To walk? To grip things, or say his or her first words? If your baby seems constantly cranky, why might that be? This book answers these and many more questions. When Baby Steps was first published in 1993, it was named one of the "10 Best Parenting Books" by Child magazine. Now this popular guide to baby's first two years...

"Looks at current research from the neuroscience to show what teachers and childcare providers can do with very young children. For each material or activity presented, the text examines its relation to the rapid brain growth that characterizes the zero to three years, including sensory reception, movement, language, cognition, memory, vision, and motivation. Materials, with guidance for their use and where to find them, include: paint, mark-makers,...

"By following the journey of one child and her family, Watch My Baby Grow looks at a baby's developing abilities, from birth, over the course of a year. In the light of new scientific knowledge, this book explores every area of a baby's progress, and provides a fascinating insight into what it's really like from a baby's point of view."--Page 4 of jacket.

This solid, research-oriented overview of the field of child development provides chronological coverage on the subject. The well-organized volume is designed to make it easier for students to learn with a module-based format and six different kinds of features highlighting a specific aspect of child development and child-development research fully integrated with the volume. The volume addresses foundations of child development, the physical growth,...

"An Educator's Guide to Infant and Toddler Development is a comprehensive and approachable guide to the growth, learning, and development of children from birth to age three. Beginning with the foundations of infant and toddler education, environments and family relationships, this essential text explores each category of development in depth. Chapters clearly explain key learning and developmental milestones, provide real life examples, and walk...

"Now in two volumes, the fully revised and updated second edition of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development provides comprehensive coverage of the basic research and applied and policy issues relating to infant development. Updated, fully-revised and expanded, this two-volume set presents in-depth and cutting edge coverage of both basic and applied developmental issues during infancy. Features contributions by leading international researchers...