Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton offers parents a comprehensive overview of the emotional and behavioral development of children from birth to three years old, covering development milestones, common early childhood problems, and the role parents, siblings, grandparents, child care centers, friends, and medical professionals play in a child's development.

"Lapsit" has become identified with public library programs and services aimed at serving very young children, younger than 24 months of age, and their adult caregivers of providers. Ernst provides tips to encourage and actively engage program participants.

"The million-copy bestseller by "the man who remade motherhood" (TIME) has now been revised, expanded, and bought thoroughly up-to-date - with the latest information on prenatal vitamins, breastfeeding practices, daycare, midwifery, hospital births, preventing and overcoming postpartum depression, and infant development. The Sears family draws from their vast experience both as medical professionals and parents to provide comprehensive information...

"In this important and conversation-starting book, veteran psychoanalyst Erica Komisar offers a provocative and compelling premise: a mother's emotional and physical presence in her child's life--especially during the first three years--means that her child has a greater chance of growing up emotionally healthy, happy, secure, and resilient. When that essential presence goes missing, the child is at higher risk for social, emotional, and developmental...