Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender Author: Visit Amazon's Louise Bates Ames Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0440506387 | Format: PDF
Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender Description
About the Author
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.
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Dell; 4th Printing edition (July 15, 1980)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0440506387
- ISBN-13: 978-0440506386
- Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This review covers ALL of the "Your ___ Year Old" Books, from the Gesell Institute of Human Development; I own nearly all of them, from Your One Year Old up to Your Nine Year Old.
These books are slim, fast reads with lots of really helpful observations and advice. Especially helpful to me: the explanation of the different phases between equilibrium and disequilibrium that virtually every child goes through; in later books the concept of "inwardized" vs. "outwardized" behavior is discussed and explained. These concepts were of critical importance to me in understanding the "whys" of puzzling behavior changes with my children.
Each book has the same basic layout of chapter headings, from "Characteristics of the Age", "The Child and Other People" (i.e., with mother, father, siblings, friends),"Routines, Health, and Tensional Outlets", "Discipline", "General Interests and Abilities", "The Child's Mind", and so on. The layout makes it quite easy to flip to whatever issue you are currently interested in.
They also (in some of the books) address possible food sensitivities, which I think particularly important; also very helpful -- each book has a section with advice on the planning of the birthday party for the age (with developmentally appropriate advice on how many to invite, what to expect, etc.).
My only complaint is rather minor: the pictures and some of the wording chosen are quite dated at times, which understandably might hinder credibility for some readers. However, the main concepts are not in any way altered by this. My own mother got a good laugh out of the pictures and commented that the kids' clothing and haircuts looked exactly like my siblings and I did back in the 70's!
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