0-3 years old infants and young children scientific parenting (revised edition)

Author: Xie Peng / Lin Yiwen (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Child-rearing for infants and young children is a comprehensive science. In recent years, significant advancements have been made in this field, both in terms of concepts and methodologies. For this reason, many new additions have been incorporated in this revised edition, particularly in areas such as nutrition, health care, early education and training, high-risk infant monitoring, infant diet, and behavioral training. It is hoped that this revised edition will help parents acquire more up-to-date knowledge on child-rearing and improve their children's health. Nowadays, many parents focus more on their children's future when raising them. As a result, they impose their own ideas, detached from the child's developmental and inner world, by forcing "knowledge" upon them and rushing them along—only to achieve the opposite effect. Parents should instead focus on their children's present. Rather than demanding too much from a distant future, it is better to take practical actions from an early age to nourish and educate their children, enabling them to grow up with a sound body, enjoy the joy of natural development, and benefit from it for a lifetime. To raise children well, parents must first educate themselves. They should learn about child-rearing through various means. This is not only necessary for raising children but also for parents to enrich themselves and improve their personal qualities, allowing their child-rearing approach to evolve from experience-based, natural, or intuitive to scientific.