Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care
Author: Benjamin M Spock
For generations, parents across the world have relied on Dr. Spock's expert pediatric advice. Now, in this fully revised edition of his timeless bestseller, you'll find all the information you need to meet the changes and challenges of child-rearing in the new millennium—including entirely new chapters about international adoption, reading aloud, multiple intelligences, autism, coping with terrorism and disasters, and other such topics as:
• breast-feeding: the latest research, approaches, and techniques
• common medical-care Q&A
• talking to your child about sex, drugs, and disease
• immunizations, vitamins, and nutrition
• learning, behavioral, and/or physical disorders
• dental and vision care
• raising non-violent children, teaching tolerance
• blended families
• first aid and injury prevention
...and more. With all-new glossaries of medical terms and common medications, and an updated list of resources, this invaluable guide is the next best thing to Dr. Spock's #1 rule of parenting: "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | ||
| A Letter to the Reader | ||
| About This Seventh Edition | ||
| The Parents' Part | ||
| The Child's Part | ||
| Before the Child is Born | ||
| Care of your Newborn | ||
| Breast- and Bottle-Feeding | ||
| Feeding in the First Year | ||
| Care During the First Year | ||
| One-Year-Olds | ||
| Two-Year-Olds | ||
| Three- To Six-Year-Olds | ||
| Six- To Eleven-Year-Olds | ||
| Adolescence | ||
| Raising Physically Healthy Children | ||
| Raising Mentally Healthy Children | ||
| Common Behavior Problems | ||
| Common Developmental Challenges | ||
| Developmental Disabilities | ||
| School and Learning Problems | ||
| Day Care, Baby-Sitters, and Out-of-Home Issues | ||
| New Issues: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century | ||
| Different Family Constellations | ||
| Family Stresses and Crises | ||
| Medical Issues | ||
| Afterword | ||
| Glossary of Medical Terms | ||
| Guide to Child and Family Resources | ||
| Index |
Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga...
Author: B K S Iyengar
The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga—the ancient healing discipline for body and mind—by its greatest living teacher. Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and illustrations of all the positions and breathing exercises. Features a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin. Illustrations throughout.
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