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Your Baby & Child: The Classic Childcare Guide, Revised and Updated

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The classic—beloved, trusted, best-selling—guide to baby and child care completely redesigned and revised for a new generation of parents • From Penelope Leach, "a luminary in the world of child development" (The Boston Globe) Penelope Leach has helped millions of parents raise their children for more than forty years with her thoroughly researched, practical, baby-led advice, her wise, empathic, and sensible perspective, and her comforting voice. This new edition has been completely redesigned for today’s parents. Leach has revised the text to reflect the latest research on child development and learning as well as societal changes and the realities of our current world. Your Baby & Child is essential—a bible—for every new parent. In easy to follow stages from birth through age five (newborn, settled baby, older baby, toddler, young child), Your Baby & Child addresses parents’ every concern over the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of their baby. Areas covered: feeding; physical growth and everyday care; sleeping; excreting and toilet mastery; crying and comforting; muscle power; seeing and understanding; hearing and learning to speak; playing and learning and thinking; learning how to behave. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Knopf; Updated edition (September 13, 2022)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593321170


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 71


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.23 x 9.1 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #102,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #189 in Medical Child Psychology #297 in Popular Child Psychology #322 in Baby & Toddler Parenting


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