Your Ten to Fourteen Years Old

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.   Sidney M. Baker, M.D., former director of the Institute, had long been associated with the Institute’s medical department. Klappentext The years from ten to fourteen are undeniably trying and turbulent years for parents and children alike. Adolescents develop by leaps and bounds during these years! and often find themselves uncomfortable with who they are and what they're feeling. Parents! too! don't know what to expect from the adolescent child who is at one moment hostile and glum! at the next carefree and happy. Your Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Old was written by renowned child-care experts Louise Bates Ames! Frances Ilg! and Sidney Baker to help prepare parents for the incredible changes their children will be going through. Included in this book: • Boy-girl relationships and sexual curiosity • Clubs! hobbies! activities! sports • Trouble at school • Family life and relationships with siblings • Physical development-the awkward adolescent • Summer jobs and independence • Money matters • Personal hygiene • Moodiness! loneliness • Smoking! drinking! drug use "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 Medicine Chapter 1   ORIENTA‰ON   The basic theme of this book is growth—the growth of body, mind, andpersonality. The book itself is a product of growth which traces its origins toprevious studies. For more than sixty years the authors have been makingsystematic observations of normal child development. During that time we havebeen observing the procession of behavior patterns which begin to unfold evenbefore birth and which assume such varied forms throughout infancy, childhood,and adolescence.   This present volume carries our studies of age changes in behavior intothe preadolescent and adolescent years. We have been particularly interested todetermine the influence of age on the organization of behavior under theconditions of contemporary American culture.   In spite of the gradualness of the child's behavior growth, we foundthat each year of maturity brings characteristic traits and trends in theseolder years, just as is the case in the first ten years of life. Ten marks aturn in the spiral course of development, with the behavioral beginnings ofadolescence appearing at about eleven. The adolescent cycle continues throughthe teens well into the twenties, but the same kinds of age changes thatappeared earlier are still evident: ages of relative equilibrium alternate withages of disequilibrium; expansive ages alternate with times of inwardization.   How do the mechanisms, patterns, and laws of growth manifest themselvesin the transitional years from ten to fourteen? Answers t...

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• Autori: L. Ames, Louise Bates Ames, Sidney M. Baker, Carol C. Haber, Frances L. Ilg
• Editore: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.1989
• EAN: 9780440506782
• ISBN: 978-0-440-50678-2
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Salute