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The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate the Major Developmental M

american academy of pediatrics (aap) tanya remer altmann

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From America’s most trusted pediatric authority comes an indispensable, easy-to-use guide to helping your baby and young child flourish in the first five years of life—physically, mentally, and emotionally.

The first five years of a child’s life are filled with major developmental and behavioral milestones. During this period your infant becomes an individual who has mastered a range of skills—from walking to making conversation–that prepares him or her to enter the world beyond home and family. For parents, this wondrous time provides an opportunity to help children fulfill their potential. The Wonder Years shows you how to make the most of it.

Written in the same warm and accessible language that has endeared the Academy’s bestselling Caring for Your Baby and Young Birth to Age 5 to millions of parents for over fifteen years, this doctor-approved resource features a variety of fun-filled activities, tips, and hints, and offers the most dependable, authoritative, up-to-date information on child development,

• Ideal patterns of growth at every stage—and normal variances
• Parent-child activities that help you monitor and promote your
child’s development
• Easy ways to create an enriching home environment
• A “behind-the-scenes” look at what’s going on in your
child’s developing brain
• Information on aiding children with special needs–from ADHD, autism,
and learning disabilities to those who are gifted
• Advice on consulting specialists, including nutritionists, occupational therapists, and counselors
• Tips on safety and injury prevention
• How factors like birth order and gender impact development

With five hundred full-color photographs and illustrations, developmental time lines, charts, and graphs, this family-friendly book is the definitive guide no parent or caregiver can afford to be without.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26,2006

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224 pages, Hardcover
Published
September 26, 2006 by Bantam
ISBN
9780553804768
ASIN
0553804766
Language
English

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sdrawkcabton88
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April 17,2025
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Really great child development stuff, some pretty basic. Good advice on tantrums. Liked this quote: "time spent playing is always well spent" or something like that. Cuz now every time my child plays I feel good about my parenting, haha.
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13o13
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This is great as a narrative of development and what to expect. It did not offer a lot of activities that I wasn't already doing and it would be better to read earlier rather than later since so much development is packed into the first year. I usually like these books to be organized by year instead of area of development, but I liked the overall supportive and clear tone of the book. What I really liked was the final chapter on factors influencing development. It really reminds one not to lock in your idea of your child since there are many factors that influence them. This is something missing in other books which may cover the other topics.
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Baba_Zone1
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Nice to have on hand to understand what to expect with childhood development.
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Pierat1
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April 17,2025
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Read this a couple months ago. The information is really basic, but I thought it was very helpful for a first-time mom. It does a good job outlining milestones and when they typically happen. I also really liked the ideas for different games and activities that are appropriate for each age group. A good, basic resource.
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Ashteron
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There are a lot of useful suggestions for games and activities to both stretch and occupy young minds here. But I repeatedly found myself questioning the timelines. I know that my son is currently rather ahead of the curve on his gross physical milestones. (The pediatrician is repeatedly surprised.) So it's not that surprising that he's well ahead of a lot of their timelines. But he also regularly socializes with other kids--at daycare, at Gymboree, at the park. So I think I've gotten exposed to a fair number of kids around his age. And it seems to me that a lot of these milestones are so conservative as to be not entirely credible. My kid's 16 months old. With some effort, he can climb up onto a grown-up chair by himself, turn around, and sit at the table. According to this book, he should start being able to do this at...2 1/2. That's over a year from now. And most of his friends aren't that far behind him. So I'm a little skeptical of their milestones, to be honest.
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KidneyEnjoyer
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Interesting book. I agree with parts of the developmental milestones. I wish I would have read this prior to having my child, had some good suggestions for developmental games and activities. Also ways to calm baby during "fussy" stages. Some of the milestones appear to be a bit advanced (like discussing walking around 32 weeks) but the developmental fussiness was believable and a good discussion.
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yotsuba99
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Nice layout...information is nothing terribly new...especially for second time round parent. Addresses children ages 0-5 years.
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