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Book Reviews
Book Reviews: 18 June - 23 June 2007

  1. Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions About Raising Children
  2. What's Going On In There? How The Brain And Mind Develop In The First Five Years Of Life
  3. A Scientifically Designed Balance Of Healthy Foods And Fun Food - The 90/10 Weight Loss Plan
  4. Mega-Nutrition - The New Prescription For Maximum Health, Energy and Longevity
  5. The Portable Pediatrician For Parents - A month-by-month guide to your Child's physical and behavioral development from birth to age five.
  6. Observing Development Of The Young Child


1) Dr. Dobson Answers Your Questions About Raising Children

This book discusses child training, discipline, sex education, adolescence, and many more topics. The author offers helpful answers to questions about parenting and raising children. How much more should a child be required to do? How can parents control TV without resorting to rules and regulations? How is the concept of God established in the mind of a child?, What goes on in a child's mind when he openly defies his parents? What should parents talk about when discussing sex with preteenagers ?

Authors: James Dobson
Publishers: Tyndale House of Publishers
Date of Publication: 1982
No. of pages: 265


2) What's Going On In There? How The Brain And Mind Develop In The First Five Years Of Life

This is a wonderful book for parents - easily understandable and easily readable. It gives account of what science knows about how a baby's brain grows. It also discusses the evolution of the senses, motor skills, emotions, memory, self-control, language, attention and intelligence, the parental factors that are most important in shaping brain development of a child, how breast milk and other nutritional factors can actually improve children's mental functioning, the difference between boys' and girls' developing brains.

Authors: Lise Eliot
Publishers: Bantam Books
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 533


3) A Scientifically Designed Balance Of Healthy Foods And Fun Food - The 90/10 Weight Loss Plan

This book is designed a revolutionary weight-loss strategy that has helped thousands of people lose weight. A diet plan that in just two weeks will make one healthier, one would lose weight and one won't have to give up the foods one loves. This is a balance of healthy and nutritious foods, with just enough fun foods to keep one happily motivated to stick with ones goal.

Authors: Joy Bauer
Publishers: Renaissance Books
Date of Publication: 2000
No. of pages: 302


4) Mega-Nutrition - The New Prescription For Maximum Health, Energy and Longevity

This book examines the success of nutritional therapy in the treatment of serious and prevalent diseases such as obesity, heart disease, cancer, hypoglycemia, diabetes, mental disorders, arthritis, allergies, and intestinal disorders and provides a detailed discussion of the nutrients used to combat these diseases. The book also presents a nutrition prescription - a total program of nutrition for everyday good health, including orthocarbohydrate diet, which insures weight loss while giving specific recommendations for maintaining the proper balance of nutrients for optimum good health.

Authors: Richard A. Kunin
Publishers: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Date of Publication: 1980
No. of pages: 247


5) The Portable Pediatrician For Parents - A month-by-month guide to your Child's physical and behavioral development from birth to age five.

This book contains advice and information relating to health care for children. It is designed to meet the needs of today's parents. The book is divided into five separate parts which include month-by-month guidance to child's physical and behavioral development from birth to age five, how to analyze symptoms and complete information on common childhood diseases, important pediatric concepts and controversies, invaluable handouts and a complete glossary of medical terms.

Authors: Laura Walther Nathanson
Publishers: HarperCollins
Date of Publication: 1994
No. of pages: 502


6) Observing Development Of The Young Child

This book presents a unique system for observing and recording the development of young children ages two - to six years old in an early childhood classroom setting. The book focuses on observation of the six major aspects of child development: emotional, social, motor, cognitive, language and creative.

Authors: Janice J. Beaty
Publishers: Charles E. Merrill
No. of pages: 325

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