Your Three Year 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. Klappentext A three-year-old is a real puzzle to parents, sometimes anxious to please and befriend, sometimes strong-willed and difficult to get along with. At the heart of the three-year-old's personality is often an emotional insecurity-and this causes a host of problems for parents! Drs. Ames and Ilg, recognized authorities on child behavior and development, help parents understand what's going on inside that three-year-old head, what problems children have, and how to cope with the toddler who is sometimes friend, sometimes enemy. Included in this book: • Jealousy of a new sibling • Toilet training • How to improve a child's eating habits • Friendships with peers • Common fears • Developing language skills • Nursery school • Books for parents and three-year-olds "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 THE AGE   Just as the tides have their rhythms, so does human behavior have its own predictable rhythms. As the child grows older, “good” ages alternate with “bad”; times of equilibrium alternate with times of disequilibrium; and periods when behavior tends to be expansive and outgoing alternate with periods when everything seems to be pulled in.   It should come as no surprise, then, to the mother or father of a rambunctious Two-and-a-half-year-old, that sometime around the age of Three their son or daughter does seem to calm down conspicuously. He says “yes” instead of “no”; “will” instead of “won’t.” He smiles instead of frowns, laughs instead of cries, gives in comfortably to your requests instead of resisting them.   Around thirty-three months of age, many children go through a stage of reliving their babyhood, of thinking about themselves in terms of their own past. The child may pretend that he is a baby, even going back to the use of baby talk, though some are loath to give up their glorious acquisition of speech. So, a child may say, “I’m a little baby. I can’t walk, I have no teeth, I drink from a bottle. But I can talk.”   However, by Three, most have caught up with themselves chronologically and are now in a state of equilibrium and of no longer looking back. In fact, by Three, many children seem to be developing a rather good self-concept, seem to have a solid set of feelings about themselves. There is little question that this sense of self is influenced by the way others treat them.   At thirty months the opposition of “I” and “you” was so strong that there seemed to be a chasm between them, with the opposition of “Me do it myself when he really could not, and “You do it” when he actually could do a thing himself. But at Three years of age the chasm seems to be br...

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• Autori: L Ames, Louise Bates Ames, Carol C. Haber, Frances L Ilg, Frances L. Ilg
• Editore: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.08.1980
• EAN: 9780440506492
• ISBN: 978-0-440-50649-2
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 205 mm x 10 mm
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia