The Early Childhood Years: The 2 to 6 Year OldAn invaluable guide to understanding how your child grows and learns Your child's second through sixth years are a time of challenge and excitement--and often, frustration--for parents, a time during which your child asserts his or her individuality with growing curiosity and perception, initiative and spontaneity. In these five years you will see your child learning, testing, exploring, playing, creating, and imagining in new and surprisingly sophisticated ways. The crises, too, are new--they may range from illnesses, nightmares, and bed-wetting to speech, learning, and discipline problems. The Early Childhood Years can help you prepare for and avoid many of the problems inherent in this crucial period of development. By the end of the sixth year, your child will be an accomplished speaker, an enthusiastic playmate, and master of his or her own body, ready to take on the world of people and things in school and beyond. This companion volume to The First Twelve Months of Life and The Second Twelve Months of Life includes a minicourse in early child development, and special parenting topics such as working mothers/day care, adoption, gifted children, stepparenthood, safety, and more. |
Contents
Overview of the Early Childhood Years | 21 |
NINE | 34 |
The 25th Through 30th Month of Life | 103 |
FOUR | 119 |
The 31st Through 36th Month of Life | 187 |
The 37th Through 42nd Month of Life | 229 |
The 43rd Through 48th Month of Life | 271 |
The 49th Through 60th Month of Life | 313 |
Special Parenting Topics | 421 |
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About the Authors | 547 |
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