Your Five-Year-Old - Sunny and Serene

Informationen zum Autor Louise Bates Ames is a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center and assistant professor emeritus at Yale University. She is co-founder of the Gesell Institute of Child Development and collaborator or co-author of three dozen or so books, including The First Five Years of Life, Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, Child Rorschach Responses, and the series Your One-Year-Old through Your Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Old . She has one child, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.   Frances L. Ilg wrote numerous books, including The Child from Five to Ten, Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, and Child Behavior, before her death in 1981. She was also a co-founder of the Gesell Institute of Child Development at Yale. Klappentext A five-year-old is a wonderful, fun-loving, exuberant child. But what's going on inside that five-year-old head? What stages of development does a child this age go through, and what should parents know that can help their five-year-old handle this impressionable year? Recognized authorities on child behavior and development, Drs. Ames and Ilg answer these and many other questions, offering both invaluable practical advice and enlightening psychological insights. Included in this book: • Characteristics of age Five • The child and others • Discipline • Accomplishments and abilities • The child's mind • School • The five-year-old party • Individuality • Stories from real life • Good books and toys for Fives • Books for parents "Louise Bates Ames and her colleagues synthesize a lifetime of observation of children, consultation, and discussion with parents. These books will help parents to better understand their children and will guide them through the fascinating and sometimes trying experiences of modern parenthood."-Donald J. Cohen, M.D., Director, Yale Child Study Center, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale School of Medicinechapter one CHARACTERISTICS OF AGE FIVE   What can you as a parent expect of your Five-year-old boy or girl? It is a pleasure to tell you that with most Five-year-olds, some very good times are ahead. Five wants to be good, means to be good, and more often than not succeeds in being good.   Perhaps most delightful of all his characteristics is that he enjoys life so much and looks so consistently on its sunny side. “Today is my lucky day,” he will tell you as he jumps out of bed in the morning. Or, enthusiastically, “Today I’m going to do all the good things and none of the bad things.” Or even more comprehensively, “I want to be good all the time and not do any of the bad things. I’ll do whatever you say and I won’t make a fuss.”   In his determination to do everything just right, he may ask permission for even the simplest thing and will then beam with pleasure when his mother smiles and says, “Yes, you may have an apple, dear.”   Even his language is on the positive side: “Sure!”   “All right!” “Fine!” “Lovely,” “Wonderful” are among his favorite words, and “I just love——” is a constant refrain.   In fact, there are those mothers who worry that perhaps their Five-year-old is “almost too good,” as they put it. Our reassurance to such mothers is that they need not worry. Such goodness cannot last forever. If it did the child would be too compliant to stand up for his rights in what, for any growing child, will be an increasingly challenging world.   The key to all this goodness may be that for a few months at least, Mother is the center of the child’s world. He not only wants to please her, he wants to be near her. Wants to talk with her, play with her, help her with her housework, follow her around the house. Many Fives would actually rather stay in the house with Mother than go out to play with their frien...

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• Autori: L Ames, Louise Ames, Louise Bates Ames, Carol C. Haber, Frances L Ilg, Frances L. Ilg
• Editore: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.02.1981
• EAN: 9780440506737
• ISBN: 978-0-440-50673-7
• Pagine: 144
• Dimensioni: 135 mm x 203 mm x 9 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia