Book description
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of the first, updating the scientific research, covering recent findings inā¦
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1 author picked Why Love Matters as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When dealing with difficult behaviour, it can help to understand how your kidsā early experiences may have influenced their emotional landscape.
Sue Gerhardt's book draws on recent developments in neuroscience and developmental psychology to explain how babiesā brains are formed. She shows us that our early, fumbling parental mistakes can have consequences that play out over a lifetime.
As a working parent, I found it a sobering readāGerhardt pulls no punches about the potentially damaging impact of putting your one-year-old in nursery, for example. But ultimately, the book is so persuasive that it feels worth facing up to these toughā¦
From Alice's list on books for frazzled parentsāand their children.
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