You Are Your Child's First Teacher, Third Edition: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six

This book has been the most helpful and eye opening book. It really helped me understand what my daughter needed at each age and how my everyday actions help her learn. It showed how little you need in terms of 'things' and helped me see how my daughter saw things. An absolute must for any parent.

Great book

very use book to keep as your baby/ kid grows well thought out and with lots of tips one of the best books bought

Very boring to read and is largely quotes from other authors. Very disappointed.

i havent read many parenting books but i'd read this one all over again. it has so many good advices - life is much easier if you really understand your child's development stages.

I wanted to love this book. Since having children I am very interested in their development and what I can do to help them to become well rounded, thoughtful people. This book seems to be a bit of a philosophical text with much talk of the emerging spirit of the child and a lot of terribly modest anecdotes about the many things the author achieved whilst also raising her children brilliantly. That aside (maybe I am a little touchy since motherhood has drained all of my ambition and focus on my own career!) I believe in her approach to encouraging in a none pedagogical way and the importance of a stable and loving environment for children to explore in their own time. I did however prefer Steve Biddulph's book Raising boys.