The First Three Years of Life

By Nina R. Lief

Book Overview

The First Three Years of Life brings together the collected wisdom of Dr. Nina R. Lief's best-selling guidebooks from The Early Childhood Development Center's Parenting Series. This comprehensive volume teaches coping skills and provides a sense of pleasure in child rearing, emphasizing the emotional and social aspects of child development and the importance of parent-child interaction. Dr. Lief's program is designed to help parents take pleasure while raising well-adjusted, thriving children.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765196573
• ISBN13: 9780765196576
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Smithmark Pub
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 2.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the best child development/parenting books I know

This book is one of the best parenting/child development books I know and I am sorry it is no longer in print. Month by month, through parents questions and comments and the insightful responses and guidance of the authors one can track the development of their child and the unfolding of the parent/child relationship. There is so much good, practical, patient and wise advice here about things like how to avoid the kind of damaging locked-horns, willful, tug-of-war relationships that spell disaster for too many parents and children. Some of the best chapters are on discipline, limit setting and punishment. Most parents have the best of intentions, but many of us lack the knowledge, the broad scope, long range wisdom and perspective to not end up repeating some of the disasterous mistakes that were inadvertently inflicted on us, no matter how desperately we may not want to. The guidance here is so sensitive and insightful without being controling; there is a good deal that's both inspiringly knowledgable and appreciative of the huge responsibility and tremendously difficult task we undertake when we have children. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.