Finally -- a parent's guide that nor only helps parents understand their child's development process, but shows them what they can do to enhance it. Learning Early gives parents and caregivers a simple, easy-to-use guide for instilling a joyful sense of discovery in their children during the critical learning years from birth to age six. In a format that is refreshingly straightforward and visually pleasing, parents will find complete information about activities that have specific benefits for nourishing their child's curiosity and self-confidence.

Dorothy Einon is a lecturer in psychology at University College, London

Finally—a parent's guide that not only helps parents understand their child's development process, but shows them what they can do to enhance it.
Learning Early gives parents and caregivers a simple, easy-to-use guide for instilling a joyful sense of discovery in their children during the critical learning years from birth to age six. In a format that is refreshingly straightforward and visually pleasing, parents will find complete information about activities that have specific benefits for nourishing their child's curiosity and self-confidence.
Written by an international child care and development consultant, Learning Early provides:
• Extensive, fascinating, easy-to-use full-color charts that illustrate each stage of a child's mental, physical, and emotional development
• Parent-child activities that enhance hand-eye coordination, spatial skills, creativity, social skills, intellectual skills, language, sense of self, pretending, self-starting and independence, prewriting, prereading, and premath
• Discussions of the kinds of breakthroughs represented by new behaviors
• Trouble-shooting sidebars that answer frequently asked questions
• Global coverage: Dorothy Einon has worked with children from all over the world; her findings are truly universal.