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Published by Simon and Schuster |
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How many times have you held your fussing or crying baby and thought, "Come on, please tell me
what's going on with you!" Well, your infant does tell you. In What Babies Say Before They Can
Talk, Paul C. Holinger, M.D., M.P.H., a psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst who has been studying children and their emotions for
more than twenty-five years, explains how infants communicate with us,
and we with them. Dr. Holinger decodes the nine easily identifiable signals -- interest,
enjoyment, surprise, distress, anger, fear, shame, disgust (a reaction
to bad tastes), and dismell (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. pub date: 2003-08-03 | paperback | 9780743406673 |
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