Psychology / Developmental / Child

I'll Be The Parent, You Be The Child: Encourage Excellence, Set Limits, And Lighten Up

von Paul Kropp

Trustworthy advice for parents who want to rear bright, polite children-and a contrarian look at hot-button parenting issues, from quality time to good manners

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

von Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

“Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.”—Harvey Karp, M.D.

“Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have created a masterly, reader-friendly guide to helping children grow...

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

von Michael Phd Thompson & Dan Phd Kindlon

The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely...

The Hurried Child-25th Anniversary Edition

von David Elkind

The 25th anniversary edition of a parenting classic

Working Memory and Academic Learning: Assessment and Intervention

von Milton J. Dehn

Equipping school and child psychologists, and neuropsychologists with critical information on the role of working memory in learning and achievement, Working Memory and Academic Learning offers guidance on assessment...

The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar

von Terri Cheney

“Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable.”

As a young girl, Terri Cheney’s life looked perfect. Her family lived in a lovely house...

What Kids Buy and Why: The Psychology of Marketing to Kids

von Daniel Acuff

If you're in the business of marketing or developing products and programs for kids, What Kids Buy and Why belongs in your office.

How can you create outstanding products and programs that will win in the marketplace...

Encouraging Your Child's Spiritual Intelligence

von Mollie Painton

More and more children are expressing spiritual qualities, and parents, caregivers, pediatricians, teachers, and therapists are increasingly taking notice of children's spiritual lives. Mollie Painton, Psy.D.,...

The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and

von John Bruer

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World

von Charles Yang

A child's very first word is a miraculous sound, the opening note in a lifelong symphony. Most parents never forget the moment. But that first word is soon followed by a second and a third, and by the age of...

What Kids Buy and Why: The Psychology of Marketing to Kids

von Daniel Acuff & Robert H Reiher

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts and Preferences

von Lanna Nakone

Everyone has a natural thinking style-a set of preferences that helps with relating to the rest of the world. Using the latest research into how we think and learn, Lanna Nakone has divided children into four...

The Way of Boys

von Anthony Rao & Michelle Seaton

The problem isn't with boys, it's with our expectations of them

In a book that's part advice and part exposé, psy­chologist and expert on boyhood development Dr. Anthony Rao challenges some of the potentially...

Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict

von Becky A. Bailey

The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation.

Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the...

How to Detect Developmental Delay and What to Do Next: Practical Interventions for Home and School

von Mary Mountstephen, Barbara Pheloung & Lucy Smith

This guide offers practical advice on how to recognize the signs of developmental delay, address difficulties effectively, and help the child to flourish. The author presents a practical approach to dealing...

How to Discipline Your 6-12

von Jerry Wyckoff & Barbara C. Unell

Discipline Without Shouting Or Spanking became a best-seller by proving practical, effective advice on common behavioral problems to parents of children under six. Here the authors adapt their winning formula...

A History of Childhood: Children and Childhood in the West from Medieval to Modern Times

von Colin Heywood

In this lively and accessible book, Colin Heywood explores the changing experiences and perceptions of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the twentieth century. Heywood examines the different...

Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies' Wholeness from the Beginning of Life-An Integrated Model of Early Development

von Wendy Anne McCarty

Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology has been studying our earliest development from the baby's point of view for over 30 years. Findings reveal we are conscious, aware beings who already have a sense of self as...

Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings

von Deborah L. Browning

Adolescent Identities draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and psychoanalysis....

The Child's Conception of Time

von Jean Piaget

This book was first published in 1969.