Raising Happy Healthy Children Why Mothering Matters (2nd edition) by Sally Goddard Blythe
260 pp.
6 1/8" x 9 1/4"
Hawthorn Press
Paperback
Published: October 2017
978-1-907359-83-5
Raising Happy Healthy Children is a fully updated second edition of What Babies and Children Really Need.
With new information carefully added, this book examines the crucial
early years from a child’s perspective. It draws on the latest
scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way
children develop, physically, mentally, and spiritually, for the rest of
their lives.
The keys to this development are parents, and in
particular mothers. A society which really cares for its children, says
Sally Goddard Blythe, values parents and makes it possible for them to
spend time and be actively involved with their children for at least the
first two years of life. Raising Happy Healthy Children
presents convincing research to show how a baby’s relationship with its
mother has a lasting, deep impact. Recent social changes, such as
delayed motherhood, juggling of work/life balance, limited uptake of
breastfeeding, and use of parent-substitute baby equipment and
electronic devices, are interfering with key developmental milestones
that are essential for wellbeing in later life. Sally Goddard Blythe
says: ‘We need a society that gives children their parents, and most of
all values motherhood in the early years.’