Raising Happy Healthy Children by Sally Goddard Blythe

Raising Happy Healthy Children by Sally Goddard Blythe

With new information carefully added, this book examines the crucial early years from a child's perspective. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives. The keys to this development are parents, and in particular mothers. Raising Happy Healthy Children presents convincing research to show how a baby's relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep impact. Recent social changes, such as delayed motherhood, juggling of work/life balance, limited uptake of breastfeeding, and use of parent-substitute baby equipment and electronic devices, are interfering with key developmental milestones that are essential for wellbeing in later life.

Sally Goddard Blythe, MSc., trained at The Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP) beginning in 1987 and joined the permanent staff in 1988. Since that time she has written numerous articles and papers on neuro-developmental factors in educational difficulties. In 1996, her first book A Teacher's Window into the Child's Mind was published. It was later extended and updated as Reflexes, Learning and Behaviour, which has been translated into six languages. It provides basic information on the significance, assessment, and remediation of abnormal reflexes for many other professionals. She has written several books since then.