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.
The keys to this development are parents, and in particular mothers. A
society which really cares for its children, says Sally Goddard Blythe,
values parents, and makes it possible for them to spend time and be
actively involved with their children for at least the first two years
of life. Raising Happy Healthy Children presents convincing research
to show how a baby's relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep
impact. Recent social changes, such as delayed motherhood, juggling of
work/life balance, limited uptake of breastfeeding, and use of
parent-substitute baby equipment and electronic devices, are interfering
with key developmental milestones that are essential for wellbeing in
later life. Sally Goddard Blythe says, "We need a society that gives
children their parents and, most of all, values motherhood in the early
years."
Includes:
- 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