In his book, Dr. Holinger provides a wealth of information and an indispensable foundation for understanding babies' feelings and behavior.
The goal of the book is to help parents enhance their infants' potential, prevent problems, and raise happy, healthy, responsible children.
The book has been acclaimed worldwide and has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Polish.
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| Parenting, Self Esteem in Children
by Dr. Paul C. Holinger"Self-esteem" is one of the most discussed issues among parents and infant and child developmentalists. Psychologically, self-esteem can become quite complicated, but let's stick to the basics and see if we can shed some light on it
"We labor under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns [afterwards] what it does in its first five years." ---Mahatma Gandhi, 1925
In the May Newsletter, we discussed the benefit of listening to our children, especially to their feelings. Now let's focus now on how useful it can be to discover what our children are interested in.
by Dr. Paul C. Holinger
It is a thrill when parents realize how much a child is processing and learning before she utters her first word. Finally, they can talk to their children and be clearly understood. "Please bring your shoes to me so we can put them on"... and lo and behold the child delivers her sneakers. "Will you please pick up your trains off the floor so no one steps on them and breaks them?" And he picks up his trains. The child may not be able to speak yet, but he is accumulating an understanding of many, many words - far more than he will be able to put voice to for months and months.