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What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use to Express Their Feelings by Paul Holinger & Kalia Doner
288 pages Fireside August 2003 Paperback rated 4 out of 5 stars   

What Babies Say Before They Can Talk is more than a book about baby body language and expression – it’s a guide to raising happy, healthy children with positive self-esteem. Clearly and simply written, it encourages parents to reflect on their perceptions of what being a parent means. According to Dr. Holinger, “The first twenty-four months of your child’s life is a time when your baby’s knowledge base is increasing by leaps and bounds, and it’s a time when your should too.”

The first part of the book, entitled “Understanding Your Infant and Yourself,” focuses on infants’ natural ability to express themselves, as well as the importance of positive interactions between parent and child and how to achieve these interactions. These interactions will develop a compatible relationship to set the stage “for the child’s happy evolution into a self-confident individual.”

The second part contains detailed descriptions of the signals. They are interest, enjoyment, surprise, distress, anger, fear, shame, disgust and dissmell. Yes, dissmell is a word and it means just what it sounds like – a reaction to bad odors. The signals are divided into two categories: signals of fun and signals for help. These chapters provide information on how to cultivate the fun signals, and how to handle the help signals, as well as the benefits of attending to each.

Full of helpful photographs, anecdotes, and case studies, What Babies Say Before They Can Talk has a wealth of helpful information for parents and family alike. We can all benefit from understanding just what Little Tommy means when he wrinkles his nose. There is more to a baby than just eating, sleeping, and pooping, after all.
 
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