My Basket 0 item - £0.00

The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must have to Grow, Learn and Flourish.

Author(s) : T. Berry Brazelton, Author(s) : Stanley I. Greenspan

Reviews and Endorsements

What do babies and young children really need? For the first time, two famed advocates for children cut through all the theories, platitudes, and controversies that surround parenting advice to define what every child must have in the first years of life. They lay out the seven irreducible needs of any child, in any society, and confront such thorny questions as: How much time do children need one-on-one with a parent? What is the effect of shifting caregivers, of custody arrangements? Why are we knowingly letting children fail in school? Nothing is off limits. This short, hard-hitting book, the fruit of decades of experience and caring, sounds a wake-up call for parents, teachers, judges, social workers, policy makers-anyone who cares about the welfare of children.

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. , is the author of many best-selling books, including Touchpoints, Infants and Mothers, and To Listen to a Child. An internationally esteemed pediatrician, he is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Child Development Unit at Children's Hospital, Boston. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D. , Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medicine, is this country's most influential child psychiatrist. His numerous scholarly and popular books include The Growth of the Mind, Building Healthy Minds, and The Child with Special Needs. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.