Raising Happy Healthy Children Why Mothering Matters [Paperback]

Fully updated second edition of What Babies and Children Really Need. Presents convincing research to show how a babys relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep impact.This is a fully updated second edition of What Children and Babies Really Need. It includes the latest research about pre-conception, baby and child development and explains how social changes have unleashed a crisis in the experience of childhood. IT really values motherhood, and provides parents (and teachers) with the information needed to support children in these crucial years. Sally takes the childs perspective as she views their development over these crucial early years. She explains the shared physical environ between mother and child  that of first love, as sympathy  derived from the Greek, meaning to be affected like another. This potential relationship between baby and mother after birth, the baby;s first love affair of life, is described as unconditional love for its mother. It is interesting to go on to read how modern living, driven by economic and political agendas, interferes with the natural cycles of fertility and conception making work versus motherhood a critical social question, and lcÅ