Child Rearing Books
 | The Continuum Concept: In Search
of Happiness Lost
by Jean Liedloff
A must read for every parent, parent-to-be, and for each of
us for the starved child within.
Jean Liedloff, an American writer spend two and a half years
deep
in the Amazon living with Old Way Yequana Indians. The experience
demolished her Western perconceptions of how we should live and led her
to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She
offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural
well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children
and for ourselves.
"If the world could be saved by a book, this just might be
the book." - John Holt
"Basic things about human nature that we forget or ignore at
our peril." - Professor Robert Aldrich M.D.
"Deserves to be read by Western parents, child
psychologists, and
other social engineers concerned with restoring self-reliance and
well-being. There are remarkable insights here." - The New York Times
Book Review
Paperback. 172 pages. $16.50
|  | The Family Bed: An Age Old
Concept in Child Rearing
by Tine Thevenin
The sharing of the family bed by parents and their children
is no
modern notion. From cave to castle, all over the world, group sleeping
was accepted as the norm. It has only been within the last 150 years
that modern Western "authorities" have discouraged this practice.
Now there is a book that puts this age-old concept into
perspective, The Family Bed
explores the pros and cons, the joys and irriations that occur when
children sleep with their parents. What emerges from this book is a way
to solve nightmare problems with young children and a means of creating
a closer bond between family members, giving children a greater sense
of security.
The Family Bed is a new look at an
old idea whose time has come - again
"I have read The Family Bed with
interest and pleasure. [Tine Thevenin] has made out an irresistible
case." - Ashley Montagu, Ph.D. the author of TouchingLINK
"This is an important book and an unusual one. It explores
the
pros and cons, the joys and irritations occuring when children sleep
with their parents." - Marian Tompson, Co-founder of La Leche League
International
"The Family Bed is an excellent
idea....I thoroughly
agree that Western Society is wrong in putting a social taboo on
children sleeping with their parents." - Jane Goodall, Ph.D. author of In
The Shadow of Man
Paperback. 159 pages. $10
|  | Our Babies, Ourselves: How
Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
by
Meredith Small
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make
regarding
the best way to care of their baby, and, naturally, they often turn to
guidance to friends and family members who have already raised
children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice
passed down through generations needs to be carefully reexamined. A
thought-provoking combination of practical parenting information and
scientific analysis, Our Babies, Ourselves
is the first book to explore why we raise our children the way we do -
and suggests that we reconsider our culture's traditional views on
parenting.
In this ground-breaking book, anthropologist Meredith Small
reveals her remarkable findings in the new science of ethnopediatrics.
Professor Small joins pediatricians, child-development researchers, and
anthropologists across the country who are studying to what extent the
way we parent our infants is based on biological needs and to what
extent it is based on culture - and how sometimes what is culturally
dictaed may not be what's best for babies. Should an infant be
encouraged to sleep alone? Is breast-feeding better than
bottle-feeding, or is that just a myth? How much time should pass
before a mother picks up her crying infant? And important is it really
to a baby's development to talk and sing to him or her? These are but a
few of the important Small addresses, and the answers not only are
suprising but may even the change the way we raise our children.
"So packed with compelling information about parenting
practices
around the globe that the reader may have trouble putting it down" -
Salon
"Nothing less than a liberation. For too long parents have
agonized...that there is one 'right' way to raise an infant. With
engaging wit and profound scholarship...Small opens our eyes to the
variety of child-care practices in other cultures." - James Shreeve,
author of The Neaderthal Enigma
"Wise, humane and packed with information." - Sandra Blaffer
Hrdy, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
"In elegant, engaging prose, Meredith Small shows the
mother-child
relation to be a microcosm of society" - Frans B.M. de Waal Ph.D.
Paperback, 292 pages. $15.00
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