child psychology

Offers parents of teenage girls advice on how to begin meaningful conversations, explaining why words are so important to girls and how they can help build a positive relationship between parents and children.

Dr. Bettelheim presents the results of his lifelong effort to understand what is most clearly and crucially involved in successful child-rearing.

Provides parents with a variety of practical, hands-on suggestions to curb their child's attitude problems, including tips for preventing arrogance, bad manners, temper tantrums, greed, impatience, jealousy, and selfishness.

A guide to child development from birth through age eight that provides information on the developmental milestones, growth patterns, daily routines, and activities for each age group.

A collection of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about human development from birth through adolescence, containing survey articles that cover the primary stages, key theories and issues in child development, and featuring definitions of terms and concepts from various fields, as well as discussion of consumer products and mass electronic media aimed at children.

Each letter of the alphabet introduces a brief discussion of a word that has something to do with human development, relationships, or self-concept, such as body, imagination, and quarrels.