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Baby Hearts

A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start

By: Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.,Linda Acredolo, Ph.D.

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Baby Hearts

A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start

By: Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.,Linda Acredolo, Ph.D.

Who says your baby can’t “talk” about his or her feelings? In fact, babies’ actions often speak louder than words! Understanding those actions–and responding appropriately to them–is the key to giving your child a head start to a healthy and happy future. Now the authors of the bestselling Baby Minds and Baby Signs translate the latest research on the rich inner life of babies into practical, fun activities that will foster your child’s emotional skills during the most critical period–between birth and age three. This comprehensive guide will help you help your child express emotions effectively, develop empathy, form healthy friendships, and cope with specific challenges. Learn how to: •Talk with your child about emotions in order to help him recognize and control his own •Use face-to-face interaction, tone of voice, song, and touch to make your infant feel safe and secure •Start a gratitude journal to help your child appreciate the good things in life •Nurture self-esteem with “try, try again” activities and simple chores •Create a “What are they feeling” deck of cards to help your child understand and practice emotions •Use games and songs to help your child practice self-control •Overcome temper tantrums, aggression, shyness, separation anxiety, and other challenges Whether your child is as easy to raise as a sunflower, as difficult as the prickly holly bush, requires the patience of the delicate orchid, or is as active as the exuberant dandelion, Baby Hearts helps you provide the emotional support that may be the most important gift a parent can give.

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Bantam

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0307417883

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Baby Minds

Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love

By: Linda Acredolo, Ph.D.,Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.

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Baby Minds

Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love

By: Linda Acredolo, Ph.D.,Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.

More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to both questions is yes! Breakthrough research is revealing the extraordinary inborn abilities of infants. It is also showing how experiences during the first years of life profoundly influence intelligence, creativity, language development-and even later reading and math skills. Now two psychologists and child development experts-authors of the bestselling Baby Signs-have created a delightful guide for parents based on the most up-to-date knowledge of how babies discover the world. You'll learn how to: _ Create a homemade mobile to stimulate your three-month-old's delight in solving problems _ Play a patty-cake game to help your two-year-old make logical connections _ Initiate bedtime conversations that build your child's memory and sense of personal history _ Develop "Baby Signs" to help your toddler communicate before he or she can talk _ Stimulate your child's natural number skills with puppets and counting games _ Use nursery rhymes and special read-aloud techniques to foster reading readiness _ Nurture budding creativity with humor and fantasy play _ And much more! Baby Minds is not another program for creating "super babies." Instead it builds on activities that babies instinctively love to develop their unique abilities and make your daily interactions full of the joy of discovery-for both of you. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.

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0307805077

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Baby Hearts

A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start

By: Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.,Linda Acredolo, Ph.D.

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A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start

By: Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.,Linda Acredolo, Ph.D.

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Baby Signs for Mealtime

By: Linda Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

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Baby Signs for Mealtime

By: Linda Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

Babies want to express their needs, especially at mealtime. Through baby signing, they can communicate when they want more, when something is too hot, or even to let everyone know it‘s ‘all gone!‘ Baby signing is easy and natural. Infants and toddlers can learn how to say what they need, what they see, and even what they feel long before their vocal chords are developed enough to let them use actual words. Both books include the most popular signs and provide parents a place to begin ‘talking‘ with their little one from the start. In this revolutionary breakthrough in parent child communication, parents have a priceless window into their young child‘s mind and heart.

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Harper Collins

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0060090731

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9780060090739

Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood

By: Linda Rose Ennis

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Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood

By: Linda Rose Ennis

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays’ landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays’ concept of “intensive mothering” as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays’ original work, she spoke of “intensive mothering” as primarily being conducted by mothers, centered on children’s needs with methods informed by experts, which are labourintensive and costly simply because children are entitled to this maternal investment. While respecting the important need for connection between mother and baby that is prevalent in the teachings of Attachment Theory, this collection raises into question whether an over-investment of mothers in their children’s lives is as effective a mode of parenting, as being conveyed by representations of modern motherhood. In a world where independence is encouraged, why are we still engaging in “intensive motherhood?”

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Demeter Press

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1926452712

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9781926452715

Becoming a Word Learner

A Debate on Lexical Acquisition

By: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek,Lois Bloom,Linda B. Smith,Amanda L. Woodward,Nameera Akhtar,Michael Tomasello,George Hollich

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Becoming a Word Learner

A Debate on Lexical Acquisition

By: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek,Lois Bloom,Linda B. Smith,Amanda L. Woodward,Nameera Akhtar,Michael Tomasello,George Hollich

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How can we explain this phenomenal change? A theory of word acquisition will not only deepen our understanding of the nature of language but will provide real insight into the workings of the developing mind. In the latest entry in Oxford's Counterpoints series, Roberta Golinkoff and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek will present competing word acquisition theories that have emerged in the past decade. Each theory will be presented by the pioneering researcher. Contributors will include Lois Bloom of Columbia University, Linda Smith of Indiana University, Amanda Woodward of the University if Chicago, Nameera Akhtar of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute. The editors will provide introductory and summary chapters to help assess each theoretical model. Roberta Golinkoff has been the director of The Infant Language Project at the University of Delaware since 1974. For the past decade she has collaborated with Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University to solve the question of language acquisition in children.

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Oxford University Press

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0190284781

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9780190284787

The Lactation Consultant in Private Practice

The ABCs of Getting Started

By: Linda J. Smith

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The Lactation Consultant in Private Practice

The ABCs of Getting Started

By: Linda J. Smith

This book presents in a fun and user-friendly manner an orientation and guide to the lactation consultant profession, as manifested by the Private Practice Lactation Consultant.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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0763710377

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9780763710378

A Guide to Teaching Statistics

Innovations and Best Practices

By: Michael R. Hulsizer,Linda M. Woolf

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A Guide to Teaching Statistics

Innovations and Best Practices

By: Michael R. Hulsizer,Linda M. Woolf

A Guide to Teaching Statistics: Innovations and BestPractices addresses the critical aspects of teaching statisticsto undergraduate students, acting as an invaluable tool for bothnovice and seasoned teachers of statistics. Guidance on textbook selection, syllabus construction, andcourse outline Classroom exercises, computer applications, and Internetresources designed to promote active learning Tips for incorporating real data into course content Recommendations on integrating ethics and diversity topics intostatistics education Strategies to assess student's statistical literacy, thinking,and reasoning skills Additional material online at ahref="http://www.teachstats.org/"www.teachstats.org/a

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444305247

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9781444305241

Baby Signs

How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk

By: Linda P. Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn,Douglas Abrams

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Baby Signs

How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk

By: Linda P. Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn,Douglas Abrams

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0071387765

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9780071387767

What Your Pediatrician Doesn't Know Can Hurt Your Child

A More Natural Approach to Parenting

By: Susan Markel,Linda F. Palmer

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What Your Pediatrician Doesn't Know Can Hurt Your Child

A More Natural Approach to Parenting

By: Susan Markel,Linda F. Palmer

Sometimes doctors don't know best. Luckily, mom and doctor Susan Markel is a pediatrician who questions conventional wisdom and instead partners decision-based medicine with the best ideas of attachment parenting. Too often, parents ignore their instincts and better sense to follow their doctor's advice, such as overtreating vulnerable children, letting babies cry themselves to sleep and giving their children cow's milk for strong bones, even though strong evidence shows none of these practices is the best route. Revealing the medical industry's gaps in knowledge is Dr. Susan Markel, frequent contributor to BabyCenter.com, the world's most popular parenting site, and Le Leche League International medical liaison, and Linda F. Palmer, D.C., author of Baby Matters, in What Your Pediatrician Doesn't Know Can Hurt Your Child. This new work combines the latest research with solid advice from a pediatrician who dares to defy her rote education and big-industry-supported dogma and seek out parent- and child-centered choices in all aspects of child care. As a mother and a pediatrician with 27 years' experience, Dr. Markel has come to find that less intervention in the natural processes generally brings superior outcomes. While providing helpful how-to natural parenting ideas throughout, What Your Pediatrician Doesn't Know Can Hurt Your Child gives parents insight into many instances where standard pediatric dogma is in conflict with the best research. Parents will find comprehensive solutions to specific health concerns and issues affecting children, such as: • Nutrition, including breastfeeding • Shared sleep • Common illnesses and drug usage • Allergies and asthma • Attention deficit disorder • Emotional health • Discipline In a reader-friendly, succinct format, not bogged down by scientific digressions, this book will assist parents in making the best possible choices for the mental and physical health of their children.

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BenBella Books, Inc.

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1935618598

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9781935618591

For Hearing People Only: 4th Edition

By: Matthew S. Moore,Linda Levitan

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For Hearing People Only: 4th Edition

By: Matthew S. Moore,Linda Levitan

Answers to Some of the Most Commonly Asked Questions. About the Deaf Community, its Culture, and the “Deaf Reality.”

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Deaf Life Press

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0970587635

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9780970587633

Spatial Minds

Conceptual Correlations of Spatial Prepositions in Hungarian, Croatian and English

By: Irena Zovko Dinković,Linda Gros

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Spatial Minds

Conceptual Correlations of Spatial Prepositions in Hungarian, Croatian and English

By: Irena Zovko Dinković,Linda Gros

Many human experiences are interpreted with the help of spatial concepts, which is why spatial language is prevalent in every aspect of human life. However, to what extent is spatial language connected to spatial conceptualization? Has this conceptualization altered due to global communication and new technologies, becoming more similar across languages? This book investigates the similarities and differences between conceptual and morphological spatial categories in three different languages: namely, Hungarian, Croatian and English. To this end, a set of concepts of nine basic spatial expressions involving the prepositions in, on and at is analyzed both morphologically and psycholinguistically, in order to shed light on their mutual relationship in language and in the mind. The research is presented in a clear and simple manner, making the book accessible to students of linguistics and language enthusiasts, and providing a concise introduction to the basic tenets of various approaches to spatial language.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527523713

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9781527523715

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action

By: Esther Thelen,Linda B. Smith

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A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action

By: Esther Thelen,Linda B. Smith

A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action presents a comprehensive and detailed theory of early human development based on the principles of dynamic systems theory. Beginning with their own research in motor, perceptual, and cognitive development, Thelen and Smith raise fundamental questions about prevailing assumptions in the field. They propose a new theory of the development of cognition and action, unifying recent advances in dynamic systems theory with current research in neuroscience and neural development. In particular, they show how by processes of exploration and selection, multimodal experiences form the bases for self-organizing perception-action categories. Thelen and Smith offer a radical alternative to current cognitive theory, both in their emphasis on dynamic representation and in their focus on processes of change. Among the first attempt to apply complexity theory to psychology, they suggest reinterpretations of several classic issues in early cognitive development. The book is divided into three sections. The first discusses the nature of developmental processes in general terms, the second covers dynamic principles in process and mechanism, and the third looks at how a dynamic theory can be applied to enduring puzzles of development. Cognitive Psychology series

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MIT Press

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026270059X

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9780262700597

Baby Signs for Animals

By: Linda Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

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Baby Signs for Animals

By: Linda Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

It's as easy as waving bye-bye! Babies have a lot to say, even before they can actually speak familiar animal names like "dog" and "bunny." Baby Signs are simple gestures that allow babies and toddlers to communicate what they see, what they need, and even how they feel. Research has shown that Baby Signs decrease frustration and tantrums and help your baby talk sooner. When to begin: When your child starts to wave bye-bye. How to do it: Show your baby the sign and point to the picture. Always say the word as you make the sign. Improvise: Make up your own signs -- your baby probably will too!

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HarperFestival

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0060090758

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Baby Signs for Mealtime

By: Linda Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

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By: Linda Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

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Baby Signs

How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk

By: Linda P. Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

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Baby Signs

How to Talk with Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk

By: Linda P. Acredolo,Susan Goodwyn

The bestselling parenting guide featured on "Oprah" and "Dateline" is revised and updated with 50 new signs to allow adults to communicate with their baby before the baby can talk.

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