Your Child at Play: Birth to One Year by Marilyn Segal has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

"Insightful, warm, and practical, these books provide expert that knowledge that is a must for every parent". -- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. Hundreds of ideas for games and learning activities combine with more than 800 photographs in these exceptional books that show parents, teachers, and care-givers how everyday routines can be turned into playful learning opportunities. Most important, they prove how play can foster the child's development and enhance communication between parent and child. Thirteen month-by-month chapters describe more than 400 activities during the child's daily routines, such as mealtime, diapering time, bathing time, and quiet time. Includes helpful practical advice for solving everyday problems of sleeping, eating, and crying.

Baby massage is a practice begun in India, and simply stated, involves sitting with the baby on your lap and massaging it gently with oil. There is very little text in this book - it's mostly photographs, of a beautiful young Indian mother, sitting on the ground with her baby on her outstretched legs. The photographs are sequential and show the ...

Nowadays parents are bombarded by any number of approaches about how to be with their children. YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S FIRST TEACHER introduces a new way of understanding the human being so that parents can be best equipped to serve as their own children's best teachers. Chapters include: Caring for the Newborn, Helping Your Toddler's Development, The Development of Fantasy and Creative Play, Nourishing Your Child's Imagination, Rhythm and Discipline in Home Life, Readiness for School, and more. From the Trade Paperback edition.

This guide provides parens with an oppotunity to chronicle their own personal history and past experiences as well as the history and experiences of their child's life in a direct, loving, and supportive way. Don't wait - let Parent To Child : The Guide assist you in writing the legacy you want and need to leave for your chldren ... just in case.

Now updated with the latest resources—including the best Internet sites—this acclaimed guide helps parents make a difference in how their children learn when they go to school. Drawing on her own experience in the education of her two children and her professional experience as an elementary school teacher, Teresa Savage shares her proven techniques on how parents can get their 3- to 6-year-olds ready for school and become active participants in their child's education. Incorporating the latest research on school-readiness, information on the dyslexic child, updated home-schooling resources, and the best sites on the Internet for parents to help their preschoolers develop basic skills, the book's eight clearly written, step-by-step chapters include easy-to-follow lesson plans and assignments to teach basic phonics and numbers. More than 60 phonetic learning exercises, 35 games, home-made flashcards, a series of original cartoon strips, and a teacher's manual for parents encourage a tension-free, fun-filled environment to help children develop skills in motor ability, logic, listening, and comprehension.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

"Don't make it all rosy, but don't make it heavy and dismal either. . . . Help us understand and deal with our feelings and give us accurate information and practical suggestions, too." That's the kind of book many parents advised Marilyn Segal to write about the concerns of children who are physically handicapped, developmentally delayed, or constitutionally difficult. As a psychologist and as a mother who raised a handicapped daughter, Dr. Segal wanted to share both her professional and personal experience and knowledge, as well as the results of extensive interviews with 24 families belonging to a support group for special needs families. In Time and with Love is the wonderful result.