Your Five-Year-Old by Louise Bates Ames

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Your Five-Year-Old by Louise Bates Ames

A five-year-old is a wonderful, fun-loving, exuberant child. But what's going on inside that five-year-old head? What stages of development does a child this age go through, and what should parents know that can help their five-year-old handle this impressionable year? Recognized authorities on child behavior and development, Drs. Ames and Ilg answer these and many other questions, offering both invaluable practical advice and enlightening psychological insights.

Included in this book-
. Characteristics of age Five
. The child and others
. Discipline
. Accomplishments and abilities
. The child's mind
. School
. The five-year-old party
. Individuality
. Stories from real life
. Good books and toys for Fives
. Books for parents

"Louise Bates Ames and her colleagues synthesize a lifetime of observation of children, consultation, and discussion with parents. These books will help parents to better understand their children and will guide them through the fascinating and sometimes trying experiences of modern parenthood."-Donald J. Cohen, M.D., Director, Yale Child Study Center, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale School of Medicine

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Louise Bates Ames is a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center and assistant professor emeritus at Yale University. She is co-founder of the Gesell Institute of Child Development and collaborator or co-author of three dozen or so books, including The First Five Years of Life, Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, Child Rorschach Responses, and the series Your One-Year-Old through Your Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Old. She has one child, three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Frances L. Ilg wrote numerous books, including The Child from Five to Ten, Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, and Child Behavior, before her death in 1981. She was also a co-founder of the Gesell Institute of Child Development at Yale.

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ISBN 13 9780440506737
ISBN 10 0440506735
Title Your Five-Year-Old
Author Louise Bates Ames
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1981-02-15
Number of pages 144
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.