First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child [Mass Market Paperback]

Stanley Greenspan (Author), Nancy Thorndike Greenspan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

Greenspan outlines the six stages of emotional growth in early childhood and explores the ways in which they are communicated, emphasizing parental interaction as the key to a child's healthy, emotional maturation.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); First Edition edition (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140119884
• ISBN-13: 978-0140119886
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #766,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Child Will Thank You and You Will Thank Yourself, January 6, 2000

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Ruth Hadad "Ruth Hadad" (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child (Mass Market Paperback)

As a single parent of a 2 1/2 year old boy, I have found this book to be the best teacher, guide, and sanity-saver since the day he was born. This book has given me concrete options for understanding and dealing with every perplexing behavior of my son's. He has a flourishing emotional life because of this book, and I have managed to keep sane.

The book is easy to read, gives several solutions to each problem presented, has tables and lists to help explain concepts, and offers a contiguous view of the child and his family's development. If a parent could only read one parenting book, *this* is the one they should read, take to heart, dog-ear and memorize techniques from, through the start of pregnancy through all their children's first years. The family foundations and relationships it helps to establish make the most solid beginnings for family life. Thank you, Greenspans, for this seminal contribution!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goes beyond other parenting books, July 6, 2001

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This review is from: First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a must read for any parent that is worried about the emotional health of our society today. We live in a society of repressed emotions that come out in violent outbursts. This books tells parents how emotions develop in a baby and toddler and what we as parents can do to help our baby develop all of their emotions. It also teaches us how we can help our baby handle and express all emotions so that they don't become bottled up and come out in violent outbursts. Most of the advice in this book goes against conventional parenting advice, but in my view we've been following conventional advice for 50 years and look where it has gotten us. It is time for a new, more sensitive way of parenting that teaches our children that emotions are ok and can be expressed in appropriate ways. I give this book my highest recommendation.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sensitively drawn guide to a baby's emotional development., March 5, 1999

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This review is from: First Feelings: Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a wonderful book for new parents or even grandparents who want to understand how they can help their baby grow into a confident person who can have a full emotional range. The book also helps a parent understand his or her own feelings and how those can affect the baby. I give this book as a baby gift now.