Is This a Phase? Child Development & Parent Strategies, Birth to 6 Years

Based on Helen F. Neville’s three decades as a pediatric answer nurse and parent educator, Is This a Phase? offers information on the concerns parents express over and over and over again. With concise descriptions and dozens of charts and graphs that will make it quick and easy to use for both fathers and mothers, Is This a Phase? explains what to expect at every developmental stage between birth and age 6. Then it walks parents and caregivers through three dozen topics common in the first six years of life: everything from attention span and impulse control to death, divorce, and the red flags that signal reading readiness issues. The co-author of Parenting Press’s Temperament Tools: Working with Your Child’s Inborn Traits, Neville has been affiliated with Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Oakland, California since 1976. She also has revised Mommy! I Have to Go Potty! for Parenting Press (forthcoming 2009). Reviews include: "An authoritative reference covering a broad range of topics in health, behavior, and human needs that every parent needs to know for their child from birth to age six. In Part 1, readers learn about the norms of developmental milestones and childhood behaviors, a