How are YOU reading up on Child Development, N13?

Re: How are YOU reading up on Child Development, N13?

• fitmama418 member

  August 2014

  Seems like most of us would...since no one else is replying! LOL.
  

  
  
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• fitmama418 member

  August 2014

  kamakaziartist said:

  Doesn't the American Society of Pediatrics have an online guide? I'm in the going-by-what-previous-children-have-done camp.

  Well yeah...you have a leg up on me with 3 kids lol. I have nothing to go off of.
  

  
  
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• Karadee1 member

  August 2014

  Does googling like crazy anytime something worries me count? Or anytime he does something new and I want to make sure he's a baby genius?
  
  ...I have some work to do.
  

  
  

  
  

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• fitmama418 member

  August 2014

  Wait...Parenting has parenting threads?!?!?!?!
  

  
  
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• fitmama418 member

  August 2014

  Thanks everyone! I know I have TB (Parenting, our BMB), other parents with similarly aged children, but the scholar I have buried way in the back of my noggin wants a book with pages. I have an older edition of WTE: The First Year and The Second Year that an older mom passed my way (though, they were published in the 80s or 90s I think). Just wanted to see if I'm missing out on any other good reads.
  

  
  
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• fitmama418 member

  August 2014

  JoeLies said:

  C's getting to the age where I need to get out of the "he's just a baby" mindset and start focusing on helping him become a good person.
  

  This right here. This is where we're at, too. I think the fact of the matter is, I feel like we're getting to a crucial and formative period and I'm terrified NOW is when I can royally fuck my kid up and I don't want that.
  

  
  
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• cagoldi member

  August 2014 edited August 2014

  Have read: Your Child's Growing Mind, The Well-Trained Mind, Attached at the Heart, Nurtureshock, Brain Rules for Baby, The Read-Aloud Handbook, Superbaby, and WTE the First Year.
  
  Currently reading the Whole-Brain Child. As far as advice from peers, I have a lot of friends that are great parents but do things a lot differently than I would and have different thoughts on their responsibility to provide for educational expenses, style of primary education and daycare environment, etc. so I usually just talk to my parents.

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• fitmama418 member

  August 2014

  @cagoldi for the win!!
  

  
  
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• cagoldi member

  August 2014

  @fitmama418‌ I personally did not love Superbaby and Attached at the Heart, although I very much anticipated I would.
  
  Next I intend to read Love and Logic For Early Childhood and then Your Self Confident Baby by Magda Gerber. I generally like her philosophy and will start going to RIE classes once they start here in OC.

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• cagoldi member

  August 2014

  Forgot to add For the Children's Sake, which was way too religious and being a SAHM is the highest calling type of stuff that made me want to barf.

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• mskatiep member

  August 2014

  I honestly haven't read any actual books I just normally Google or ask my sisters. I worked with toddlers for years, so I'm much more comfortable with that age than this inbetween stage. While I am concerned about intellectual development, I am much more concerned right now about making sure I don't screw up and raise a hellion/brat. Guess I have some reading to do...

  
  

  
  

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• beka2525 member

  August 2014

  I second @cagoldi with Nurtureshock, Brain Rules for Baby, and the Whole-Brain Child. Those are excellent reads!

  
  

  What's going on in there, Peaceful parent happy kids, and How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk are more suggestions. 

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• kimmycup member

  August 2014

  Nothing? lol. I just ask my sister, MIL or the pediatrician. I also get the weekly bump updates that tell me what she should be doing. 

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• justMaike member

  August 2014

  I read a couple things here and there about milestones and the occasional bump update on my phone but that's about it..maybe I should look at a book and read more?

  
  

  
  
  
  

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• mamasoup030 member

  August 2014

  We have the American academy of Pediatrics "Caring for Your Young Baby and Child, Birth to Age 5". It's a little dry but it covers all the basics like sample meals and milestones. My pediatrician recommended it.

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• cagoldi member

  August 2014

  @leopardgurl831‌ You would like Magda Gerber. She founded RIE and Janet Lansbury taught at the LA RIE center.

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• kimmycup member

  August 2014

  karissa2009 said:

  Whew, looks like I'm in the majority! While I love to read, it's just been on the back burner since LO arrived. I have WTE the first year that I glance at most days, but I've definitely not read all of it. I did take some child development classes during college, so I know basic development. Otherwise, it's TB, friends and my pedi. This might be wrong of me, but I figure if some of the people I know can raise happy, successful kids without a doctorate in child psychology, I probably can too.

  Nope not wrong at all. I'm not reading anything either. 

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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