Building healthy minds

Stanley I. Greenspan

"Bright, emotionally healthy, moral children don't just happen. While every parent wants to raise such a child, no one has yet shown exactly how these qualities begin, and how they can be nurtured. Now, for the first time, Stanley Greenspan, the internationally admired child psychiatrist, identifies the six most crucial and irreplaceable experiences which enable children to reach and expand their full intellectual, emotional, and moral potential as human beings." "Building upon exciting findings from his research and practice, Dr. Greenspan shows parents not only the precise types of playful intimacy, games, fantasy, and conversations with and without words that encourage this development, but also how to tailor these to their particular child. Never before have the origins and stages of intellectual development from birth through preschool been described in such concrete, practical...

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