Your Eight Year Old by Louise Bates Ames

Your Eight Year Old by Louise Bates Ames

The eight-year-old child is an exuberant,outgoing bundle of energy; he meets every challengehead-on, willing to try almost anything. Sometimesparents are amazed at the enthusiasm and excitementwith which their child greets theworld.



However, eight is also a time when the childbegins to do a great deal of analyzing andevaluating, finding fault in himself andothers--especially Mohter. How do parents help an eight-year-oldthrough this up-and-down age? What should parentsexpect in their relationships with the child andhow can life in the family be made easier? Whatwill the child's relationship with friends andsiblings be like? In the successful tradition of theGesell institute series, YourEight-Year-Old is a well-researched, highlyaccessible guide.

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.

Carol Chase Haber is a school psychologist in the Hamilton County, Ohio, school system and is a trained and qualified Gesell Examiner. She is the co-author of several books, including He Hit Me First, Your Seven-Year-Old, Your Eight-Year-Old, and Your Nine-Year-Old.

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ISBN 13	9780440506812
ISBN 10	0440506816
Title	Your Eight Year Old
Author	Louise Bates Ames
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	1990-03-01
Number of pages	160
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