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What lies behind the tempers, compulsions, tears and laughter of young children? Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist, have come up with the term touchpoints in a new book to describe the bursts of inexplicable behavior that seem to grip young children just before they make a developmental leap. A child just about to walk, for instance, might be restless at night, or cranky for days, until the afternoon she masters her first shaky trip across the carpet. Or a three-year-old struggling to acquire his language skills might have daily meltdowns until...
...Touchpoints Three to Six, Brazelton and Sparrow profile four imagined children of different temperaments as they progress from nursery school to first grade. Brazelton and Sparrow are great believers in the power of parents' modeling good behavior for their children, and they give readers the same treatment--showing us how thoughtful adults react when their children hit the skids. For example, after his mother brings home a new baby, "Billy," 3, regresses and wets his bed at night. Billy's parents don't make a big deal of it and let him wear a diaper to bed. He soon adjusts...
Brazelton and Sparrow constantly remind us of the joy and hilarity of parenting. A scene describing five-year-old "Billy" trying to glue back his little sister's hair made me remember how often life with kids is like hanging around with the Three Stooges...
...Caribbean Favorites by Lord Kitchener and the Mighty Sparrow "I defy anyone to hear it and not feel better about...
...child will do in school, parents are the best tutors. Experiments reveal that by the time babies are two months old, they are already fluent in the complex language of their parents' faces, and count on them for their sense of well-being. "Think about the human face," says Sparrow, "the wrinkles, the expressions in the eyes--and think about the infant brain being stimulated by that." To believe that even the best video game or toy could replace this kind of learning, Sparrow thinks, misses the point of just what it is babies are truly hungering to know...