Children First ebook

by Penelope Leach

Leach is best known for her book Your Baby and Child: From Birth to Age Five, published in 1977, which has sold over two million copies to date and won the BMA award for best medical book for general audiences in 1998

бесплатно, без регистрации и без смс. Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child. In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and as a nation to make good on the promise of our endless rhetoric about the importance of family by creating the indispensable economic and social supports for children that are now so tragically missing

Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child.

Leach shows how our laws. In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and as a nation to make good on the promise of our endless rhetoric about the importance of family by creating the indispensable economic and social supports for children that are now so tragically missing.

Leach shows how our laws, employment polices, and culture end up depriving children of their parents.

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In this book she exposes what she considers the failure of Western societies to be child- and parent-friendly and argues for a new social, political and economic priority for children. Read full description. See details and exclusions.

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In her new book, "Children First," Penelope Leach speaks not only to parents, but also to corporate and governmental America as. .Leach details the ways in which we fail children during each phase of infancy and childhood.

Leach details the ways in which we fail children during each phase of infancy and childhood. She shows how the developmental needs of children under 3 are unlikely to be met in group care. Moving through each phase of childhood, the author challenges corporate policies, cultural norms and family choices that make it more difficult for children.

Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child.In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and as a nation to make good on the promise of our endless rhetoric about the importance of family by creating the indispensable economic and social supports for children that are now so tragically missing.She asks us -- in our legislation, in our policy-making, in our industrial might -- to think of children first and thereby let a new rush of sanity and health into our society.She presents us with the paradox that after spending spectacular millions and employing the most sophisticated medical science to help children come into the world, our society turns its back on them in the very years during which they are developing. She shows us how, while paying constant lip service to family, we fail to acknowledge the difficulties of parenting in the nineties and to make sure that conditions essential to the raising of children are available to parents.It is Penelope Leach's contention that what parents do for their children -- what they are able to do -- depends on what society actually wants, approves and encourages. And, in a powerful argument against complacency, she presents specific steps by which we, as members of society, can move to fashion a new economic priority for all children; to make the child central in the fight against poverty and inequity; to achieve a rational standard of human rights for our children; and to find, in our own lives, effective new approaches to positive parenting.Provocative, passionate, courageous, Children First is a groundbreaking book. It has the extraordinary potential to affect the lives not only of our own children but also of the children that they themselves will have in years to come.

Samardenob

Great read!

Mr.Savik

This is an excellent read for all those who are truly concernedwith the welfare of children. While the economy has greatly alteredthe roles of both men and women, the question is raised whether it should be allowed to alter the needs of young children. Penelope Leach intelligently presents the thesis that the needs of young children must be placed above all else. This is ever the more significant in light of the recent popular press attention regarding the critical development that is going on in the brain during the first three years of life. These first three years of life are so important that it only goes to underscore the author's plea that each child receive one on one "parenting" during this time to insure optimal growth. This is certainly not a popular notion today in light of the two-earner family, however, society must still measure the cost of ignoring what science is telling us is important. This is not a nostalgic throw-back to the days of Ozzie and Harriet but rather a realistic analysis of what we as a society cannot discount.

Manazar

This book clearly shows the importance of properly caring for children, whether you're the parent or not, and should be read by everyone. It's an overview of development, fundamentals, and how life works on the most basic yet most important levels, while also going into enough detail to give developed understandings. Want to change the world for the better? Help children grow up with better lives; this is a great first step.

Doath

Penelope Leach is the most sensible, pragmatic and intelligent of child care "experts," with empathies that are clearly with the child in this argument that the developed world must make it easier for families to put their children first.