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This comprehensive guide's holistic approach ensures that parents learn everything they need and want to know about raising and caring for their pre- school children.

Maximize your children's potential with the help of a leading child psychologist. Practical suggestions on how to ensure the development of hand-eye coordination, language, learning, and physical and social skills, will give you plenty of tools to use with your babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers. Build your children's self-confidence, acknowledge gender differences and the impact of birth order and sibling rivalry, and understand nonverbal communication. Important issues such as sleeping patterns, eating habits, weaning, discipline, potty training, and preparing for school are fully discussed. Plenty of full-color photos, "top tip" sidebars, problem-solving suggestions, and question-and-answer panels allow for quick reference, and action plans and development charts help you monitor your children's progress. By recognizing and boosting their natural talents and abilities, you can give your children a real "bright start" on the future!

Of development: Nature or nurture -- Sibling rivalry -- Gender differences -- Child-care arrangements -- Nonverbal communication -- Tantrums -- Eating habits -- Potty training -- Bedtime and sleep -- Shyness -- Confidence -- Special needs -- Development charts: From 15 to 18 months -- From 19 to 21 months -- From 22 to 24 months -- From 25 to 30 months -- From 31 to 36 months -- Movement: The Development of movement -- Charts -- Stimulating movement - activities -- Hand-eye coordination: The Importance of hand-eye coordination -- Charts -- Stimulating hand-eye coordination - activities -- Language: The Progress of language -- Charts -- Stimulating language - activities -- Learning: The Development of learning skills -- Charts -- Stimulating learning - activities -- Social and emotional development: The Importance of social and emotional development -- Charts -- Stimulating social and emotional development - activities -- Index of age groups.

Every parent wants to give their baby a head start in life. This title aims to steer parents in the right direction, identifying key areas for development that are needed to promote targets. The book covers birth to 15 months.