A Handbook for Parents of Developing Children from Birth through Adolescence.
Fully Revised and Expanded for the New Century.
From the pediatrician whose advice has shaped parenting practices for half a century, Dr Benjamin Spock, comes the essential parenting book - fully revised and expanded for the 21st Century.
Generations of parents have relied on Dr Spock's classic bestseller 'Baby And Child Care'. It is still the source book, the most authoritative and reliable guide for parents. Collaborating with pediatrician and child psychiatrist Dr Steven J Parker, Dr Spock has updated his work to meet the changes and challenges of the late 1990s, and to include, for the first time, guidance on caring for older children.
Topics covered include:
- Breast-feeding: the newest approaches, with proven techniques for working mothers
- Immunisation schedules, vitamins and dietary recommendations
- Common medical questions and answers
- Working and parenting
- Talking to your child about sex, contraception, homosexuality, tobacco, alcohol and other drug abuse, AIDS
- School and learning problems
- Children with disabilities
- Dental care for children
- Raising non-violent children
- Gay and lesbian parents
- First aid and injury prevention
