Paul Holinger

What Babies Say Before They Can Talk (eBook, ePUB)

The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In What Babies Say Before They Can Talk, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Paul C. Holinger, M.D., M.P.H., a explains how infants communicate with us, and we with them, and outlines the nine easily identifiable signals that will help you to decode your baby's needs and feelings. Dr. Holinger decodes the nine easily identifiable signalsinterest, enjoyment, surprise, distress, anger, fear, shame, disgust (a reaction to bad tastes), and dissmell (a reaction to bad smells)that all babies use to express their needs and wants. These insights will aid parents in discerning what their baby is feeling. This book can help all parents become more confident and self-aware in their interactions with their children, create positive communication, and put the joy back into parenting. This is a unique work. It provides a foundation for understanding feelings and behavior. Based on emerging research, What Babies Say Before They Can Talk offers parents a new perspective on their babies' sense of the world and the people around them. The goal of this book is to help parents enhance their infants' potential, prevent problems, and raise happy, healthy, responsible children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439123812
• Artikelnr.: 49187589

Autorenporträt

Paul C. Holinger, M.D., M.P.H., with Kalia Doner

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
INTRODUCTION: My Journey: On the Road to Raising Happy, Capable,
Responsible Children
PART ONE: Understanding Your Infant...and Yourself
ONE: Welcome to Baby's World
TWO: The Foundation of Feelings: The Nine Basic Signals
THREE: Responding to Your Infant's Signals: The Five Keys
FOUR: Responding to Signals As Your Child Grows: Watching the Vocabulary
Become
More Complex
FIVE: Cultivating Compatibility: How Understanding the Signals Helps You
and Your Child Get Along
SIX: Encouraging Playfulness
SEVEN: "I Want to Be Like You, Mom and Dad!": How and Why Children Identify
with Their Parents
EIGHT: Building Your Child's Self-Esteem
NINE: Turning Off Your Parenting Autopilot...: Identifying and Dealing with
Your Assumptions About Being a Mom or a Dad
TEN: ...And Becoming a Clued-In Parent: Getting to Know Your Child
PART TWO: The Signals
Signals of Fun:
ELEVEN: Interest
TWELVE: Enjoyment
THIRTEEN: Surprise Signals for Help:
FOURTEEN: Distress
FIFTEEN: Anger
SIXTEEN: Fear
SEVENTEEN: Shame
EIGHTEEN: Disgust and Dissmell
NINETEEN: Beyond Signals: When Language Emerges and the Signals Transform
into Words
TWENTY: Reflections on Discipline and Limits
EPILOGUE: As Your Child Gets Older...
APPENDICES:
A Guide to Further Insights
Charts
Resources
INDEX