Learning Early [Paperback]

Dorothy Einon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1999

With Learning Early, child development expert Dorothy Einon gives parents and caregivers a simple, easy-to-use guide for instilling a joyful sense of discovery in their children during the critical learning years from birth to age six. In a format that is refreshingly straightforward and visually pleasing, parents will find complete information about activities that have specific benefits for nourishing their child's curiosity and self-confidence.

Learning Early boasts:

Extensive, fascinating, easy-to-use full-color charts that illustrate each stage of a child's mental, physical, and emotional development

Discussions of the kinds of breakthroughs represented by new behaviors

Trouble-shooting sidebars that answer frequently asked questions

Global coverage: Dorothy Einon has worked with children from all over the world; her findings are truly universal.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Learning Early is the ideal guide for parents who want to understand the development of their childand discover how they can help. -- Island Family, April 2000

About the Author

Dorothy Einon is a lecturer in psychology at University College, London, with a particular interest in child development. She has researched the psychology of learning at Columbia University in New York and has studied and taught child development in different educational cultures from Japan to Canada. She has worked as an adviser to Fisher-Price Toys and appears regularly on radio and television.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Checkmark Books (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816040141
• ISBN-13: 978-0816040148
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,047,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Parent Guide we have all been waiting for....., January 11, 2003

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"jrjenkinsii" (south by way of the north) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learning Early (Paperback)

I bought this book when my now 3.3 year old was an infant. I have followed the checklist, completed the activities and now I have what I would call an active, well balanced, extremely smart (dare I say gifted) precocious child that everyone loves and declares is a pistol.

If you are looking for true milestone marks and are truly interested in developing your child then this is the book for you. If you are just into the whole unschooling---"my child will pick this up on their own..." then this is not the book for you. This book is a how to help your child develop and to keep developing. If your child is showing reading readiness then you will know what to do next.

This book is consulted before I buy toys, new curriculum and almost weekly I just review where he is headed. It is easy to use and if we are needing help in a particular area I know this is the book I can turn to because it is divided into easy to understand sections.

This book and "Your Self Confident Baby" , and "You are Your Child's First Teacher" are the parenting books that are still on my shelves. Sadly, those other experts are packed away with the other baby things he has outgrown.

Buy this and know that it is money well spent and that your child will benefit greatly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great guide on child development, October 25, 2003

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Manny Hernandez "@askmanny" (Bay Area, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learning Early (Paperback)

The book is one of the best I've run into around the topic of child development. This is NOT a book about children's issues when growing up or what to do if they run a fever (you need to get your copy of the APA's book "Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5" for that purpose!). It is a book that covers the different aspects of child development (movement, senses, language, etc.) by time periods, so that you can understand what you child can or cannot do at a point in his/her life, as well as what you -as a caring parent- can do to help stimulate the child with games and activities. Complementing the excellent and well laid out content, the book is packed with lots of color photos (not illustrations) and comes with a very solid binding -in spite of being a paperback edition- which is important considering that it wil have to last you at least five years.

After having searched for a while, we settled on this book, along with Edward De Bono's "Teach Your Child How to Think", to help with the physical and intellectual growth of our little one.

4.0 out of 5 stars Childhood Development Book, January 7, 2010

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Minette SLP (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dorothy Einon's Learning Early: Learning Early (Hardcover)

I bought this book for a friend of mine who was about to have her first child. I am a speech-language pathologist, so I am versed in the language development of children. After reviewing a lot of child development books, found that most of them have TOO much information and read a little like a medical dictionary. The information in this book is brief, to the point, and easy to access. It also includes suggestions for activities to encourage development across a multitude of areas including fine motor skills, language, gross motor, and social. It is not a reference book for figuring out different ailments, more of a reference of what to expect at what age, from birth through 6 years of age.