The Second Twelve Months of Life (Paperback)

by Frank Caplan (Author)

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Product Description
Your baby's second year is a wondrous and  challenging experience for parents and child as your baby  reaches out physically and emotionally for the  world beyond mommy and daddy -- to friends, to toys,  to sights, sounds, thoughts and  words.



In these twelve months you will see your baby  communicating, identifying, differentiating,  recognizing and remembering.



Your baby  will probably begin to walk alone, run and jump,  play simple instructive games, imitate your  actions, sing and dance to music, and increasingly  demonstrate a desire to "do it  myself."



By the end of this milestone year, your baby  will show an expanding range of emotions and  abiliy to express them, show off for an audience,  probably talk several dozen words and be able to give  as well as receive love. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Your baby's second year is a wondrous and challenging experience for parents and child as your baby reaches out physically and emotionally for the world beyond mommy and daddy -- to friends, to toys, to sights, sounds, thoughts and words.

In these twelve months you will see your baby communicating, identifying, differentiating, recognizing and remembering.

Your baby will probably begin to walk alone, run and jump, play simple instructive games, imitate your actions, sing and dance to music, and increasingly demonstrate a desire to "do it myself."

By the end of this milestone year, your baby will show an expanding range of emotions and abiliy to express them, show off for an audience, probably talk several dozen words and be able to give as well as receive love. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 315 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; Later Printing edition (January 15, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399507760
• ISBN-13: 978-0399507762
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,702,550 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference for toddler development, April 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Second Twelve Months of Life: Your Baby's Growth Month By Month (Paperback)

I purchased this book soon after my son's first birthday. It is organized with month by month descriptions of toddler development in language, physical skills and personality. I enjoyed reading the monthly sections throughout the year. It gave me some idea of what to expect, although the authors do point out that individual development is unpredictable. The book was written over 20 years ago and has a few dated references. (I don't think too many parents have their toddlers listening to phonograph records these days!)

5.0 out of 5 stars The Second Twelve Months of Live, March 29, 2009

By	slz "susan" (Vienna, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Second Twelve Months of Life: Your Baby's Growth Month By Month (Paperback)

This book, along with the authors' book The First Twelve Months of Life, are my two favorite books on infant development. It explains how babies perceive the world and how they progress in their development, month by month. These books helped me when my own kids were babies and they're the books that I give as gifts to new parents.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent whole life experience guide, January 20, 2009

By	Kay - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Second Twelve Months of Life: Your Baby's Growth Month By Month (Paperback)

Too many modern parenting books are little more than troubleshooting guides, quick-fix encyclopedias in which you look up the current problem you're having and what to to do about it to make it go away. This book s is a much more practical and calm guide to what may or may not happen and when, how to work your way through the occasionally frustrating developmental periods of the second year and how to effectively play and interact with your child so that parenting is less a task to be tackled than a way of life to be experienced and enjoyed. It highlights many ways that you can encourage your child's learning and development without actually sitting down and consciously teaching them things. It also approaches your child's upbringing as being part of the environment around him instead of (again, a flaw of many modern books) merely trying to make him fit in with your adult world. The suggested developmental timeline is very fluid and less rigid and demanding than many I've come across.

As another reviewer mentions, it was written many years ago and there are a few references which we would probably take issue with today - such as the suggestion that an 18 month old may enjoy activities such as blowing out matches - but most of these are minor issues which can be easily subsituted with newer concepts (listening to CDs rather than records for instance). The one thing some parents may have a problem with is that this book assumes your world revolves around your child and you will make all your free (eg non-work) time available for him. For a traditional, more old-fashioned Mom like myself this may be fairly easy to adapt to but for the career parent (especially women), the idea that one's life is entirely no longer one's own may not be so easily appreciated.