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What Every Baby Knows

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. –  Explore the inner workings of your child’s mind in this book by Harvard Professor of Pediatrics and renowned child development expert T. Berry Brazelton.  Looking deep into the experiences of five families, this book helps make sense of children’s unique and universal experiences, exploring why they feel how they feel… Read more »

Compassionate Child Rearing

Robert W. Firestone, Ph.D. – This eye-opening book introduces the theory and underlying dynamics involved in family relationships. The author helps explain how even well-intentioned parents unwittingly injure their children’s self-esteem and psychological functioning based on their own childhood defenses and self-destructive tendencies. By recognizing their own early life experiences and the internalized defenses they… Read more »