Recommended Resources from Day One

Day One: A Positive Beginning for Parents and their Infants

Recommended Resources and Reading

For Parents and Childcare Workers:

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children From Birth Through Age 8. Sue Bredekamp, Editor. (NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children. 800 424-2460. 1992.). Highly recommended! Parents and professionals will find a wealth of valuable, research-based, practical information in this book. For schools and caregivers, the book offers guidelines for developing programs that meet the needs and capabilities of children.
For parents, we recommend this publication as a guidebook to help you evaluate your children's daycare, elementary school, and after school programs. The guidelines are clearly written, and feedback from people who have purchased the book on our recommendation have been uniformly enthusiastic.
Based on extensive research and input from hundreds of early childhood professionals. Included in the book are bibliographies of hundreds of books and articles on topics related to development and practice.
"Your Child's Brain," Sharon Begley. (article: Newsweek, February 19, 1996, pp.55-62.) Well researched overview (with companion piece) "Why Do Schools Flunk Biology?" by LynNell Hancock in the same issue -- especially the chart labeled The Windows of Opportunity on page 58.
Developmental Profiles, Birth to Six, Eileen Allen and Lynn Marotz. (Delmar Publishers, 1989.)
A Parent's Guide to Early Childhood Education, Diane Trister Dodge. (Teaching Strategies, Inc. ,Washington, DC, 1990.)
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. (Avon Books, 1980.)
Don't Accept Me As I Am: Helping "Retarded" People to Excel, Reuven Feuerstein and Jakob Rynders. (Plenum Press, 1988.)

About Your Baby:

Infants and Mothers, T. Berry Brazelton, M. D. (Dell Publishing Co., 1969)
On Becoming a Family: The Growth of Attachment, T. Berry Brazelton, M. D., (Dell Publishing Co.,1981)
Working and Caring, T. Berry Brazelton, M. D., 1985
Your Child's Self Esteem, Dorothy Corkille Briggs, (Doubleday, 1975)
Bringing Out the Giftedness in Your Child : Nurturing Every Child's Unique Strengths, Talents, and Potential, Rita Dunn , Kenneth Dunn , Donald Treffinger (John Wiley and Sons, 1992.)
Your Child is a Person, Stella Chess, M. D., Alexander Thomas, M.D., Herbert Birch, M. D., (Viking, 1965)
Between Generations, the Six Stages of Parenting, Ellen Galinsky, (Times Books,1981)
First Feelings, Stanley Greenspan, M.D., (Viking, 1985)
Child Behavior : The Classic Childcare Manual from the Gesell Institute of Human Development, Frances L. Ilg , Louise B. Ames , Sidney Baker. (Harper Perennial, 1992)
The Fourth Trimester, Brenda Eheart Krause and Susan Karol Martel (Appleton Century Crofts, 1983)
Raising Your Spirited Child : A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, (HarperPerennial, 1992)
The Secret Language of Your Child, David Lewis, (Sphere Books Ltd.)
How To Have a Smarter Baby, Susan Ludington-Hoe, Ph.D., (Bantam, 1987)
The Infant Mind, Richard M. Restak, (Doubleday, 1986)
The First Relationship: Infant and Mother, Daniel Stern (Harvard University Press, 1977)
The Difficult Child, Stanley Turecki, M.D. and Leslie Tonner, (Bantam Books, 1985)

About Learning in Childhood:

In Their Own Way, , Thomas Armstrong (Jeremy Tarcher, 1989.)
Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius Thomas Armstrong (Jeremy P.Tarcher, Inc., 1991.)
The Unschooled Mind: How children think and how schools should teach. Howard Gardner (Basic Books, 1991.)
Your Child's Growing Mind Jane Healy, (Doubleday, 1989.).
Endangered Minds Jane Healy, (Doubleday, 1992.)
Punished by Rewards: The trouble with gold stars, incentive plans, A's, praise, and other bribes. Alfie Kohn, (Houghton Mifflin, 1993.)

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