- Overview
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This book includes "everything about babies" first-time moms need to know written by ten clinical, play, art, and language professionals at Hug Mom, Korea's largest children's counseling center with 300 thousand counseling cases.
- Book Intro
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Is my child growing up okay?
Check the Key points of a child's development for each month
This book introduces the development process of babies in six parts, following Mahler's object relations theory that the relations the baby forms with its main rearer for the first three years have a great influence on the baby's overall development. Always have Is My Child Growing Up Okay? next to you to check how the baby's body and mind are growing and what the reasons are for the behavior shown by the baby. That way, you can cope with the difficulties of child care at each stage more wisely.
How should you stimulate and respond to the baby getting bigger every day?Over 140 development games even first-time moms can do
Each part of this book includes five chapters, and clinical, play, art and language professionals inform mothers of key child care methods they must remember for each development stage. In particular, from Chapters 3 to 5, 200 pictures and photos help first-time parents to follow through with around 140 development games to better communicate with their babies who can't speak yet and stimulate baby's growth. Such development plays are an important medium for enabling first-time parents to form a good relationship with the baby and increase parenting efficacy.
Am I doing something wrong?Top Q&As are included to calm the anxiety of first-time moms
At the end of each part, the most frequently asked questions for the relevant month that the authors received from mothers are included along with answers. Mothers ask different questions for each development stage, but if you look at the answers given by the authors closely, you will learn that most of the mothers' worries and anxiety can be reduced if they look at it through the eyes of the babies who are experiencing great confusion as they grow so quickly every day.
- About the Author
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Hug Mom, Children's Counseling Center
Hug Mom, Korea's largest children's counseling center with 46 locations throughout the peninsula, has around 600 professionals in counseling, testing and therapy. It has spent more than one million hours with moms and dads up to the present and has established itself as a counseling center that even cares for parents' hearts as well as children's development, with over 300 thousand counseling cases.
Through play and interviews, children's physical, emotional, cognitive, language and social development, attachment and conflict between parents and children, and rearing attitude are comprehensively evaluated to effectively treat client's psychological difficulties.
Lee Gahye
(English) Lee Gahye is a freelance illustrator who illustrates various children's books and educational publications. Lee aims to capture the thoughts and feelings not clearly evident in the text through her illustrations.
