- ISBN13: 9780738210490
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
All over the U.S. and in over twenty countries around the world, Touchpoints has become required reading for anxious parents of babies and small children. T. Berry Brazelton’s great empathy for the universal concerns of parenthood, and honesty about the complex feelings it engenders, as well as his uncanny insight into the predictable leaps and regressions of early childhood, have comforted and supported families since its publication in 1992. In this… More >>
Despite expedite shipping being purchased, the book did not arrive for more than TWO weeks. Since it was a present, had to go to Barnes and Noble and buy another copy. Book was not edition shown in picture.
Rating: 1 / 5
I picked this up from the library on a whim and quite frankly, after skimming through the first chapter, I decided that it was not detailed nor objective enough to be useful for decision-making. It basically reads like a dialog with a very opinionated pediatrician. Since he is busy discussing his own organization and research, one can only assume that he is giving short thrift to any other popular ideas/research currently available. Other books with fewer pages provide greater depth into the topics that he covered in the first chapter.
Rating: 3 / 5
A friend suggested reading Terry Brazelton’s books. We have a 1 year old and so far this book has answered a lot of questions for us.
Rating: 5 / 5
My sister, a child psychologist and head of early childhood development at a major hospital, told me this is the best, by far, and recommended I give this book to all my new-parent friends.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is very well organized, both in contents and in chronology. I really enjoyed the writing style, in which the issues are covered by example, rather than a more aggressive “do this, don’t do that” approach.
Rating: 4 / 5