Thousand Days of Wonder : A Scientists Chronicle of His Daughters Developing Mind

English

ISBN: 1583333975

EAN: 9781583333976

Category: Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Infants & Toddlers/Psychology / Developmental / Child/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 05/31/2010

Age Range: 18-null

Synopsis: A fathers intimate look at his daughters developing mind from birth to age three Unlike any other time in our lives, we remember almost nothing from our first three years. As infants, not only are we like the proverbial blank slate but our memories are like teflon: nothing sticks. In this beautifully written account of his daughters first three years, Charles Fernyhough combines his vivid observations with a synthesis of developmental theory, re-creating what that time, lost to the memory of adults, is like from a childs perspective. In A Thousand Days of Wonder, Fernyhough, a psychologist and novelist, attempts to get inside his daughters head as she acquires all the faculties that make us human, including social skills, language, morality, and a sense of self. Written with a fathers tenderness and a novelists empathy and style, this unique book taps into a parents wonder at the processes of psychological development.

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Thousand Days of Wonder : A Scientists Chronicle of His Daughters Developing Mind

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.74 inches

Width: 5.6 inches

Length: 8.3 inches

Weight: 8.01 oz

Pages: 272