During a conversation last night a parent asked if I would be willing to share my favorite development books.  I went home and looked on my bookshelf and my bedside table.  There are so many choices!  I noted some of my “always go to”, and “spend the most time getting back from friends” books. Not in order of favorites with the exception of number 1!  T. Berry Brazelton is a development genius, in my opinion!

• Touchpoints-Birth to Three by, T.Berry-Brazelton
• NurtureShock New Thinking about Children by, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
• Power of Play by David Elkind
• A Child’s Work: The importance of Fantasy Play by Vivian Gussin Paley
• Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape our Capacity to Love by, Robert Karen
• Your One Year Old by, Louise Bate Ames and Francis Ilg ( This series goes all the way through the teens.  Your Two Year old, Your Three Year Old, etc.  They were written in the 70’s so a bit dated, but the information is fabulous!!  I still buy them; I’m up to Your 15 Year old!!)
• Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by, Dan Kindlon
• The Boy Who Would be a Helicopter by, Vivian Gussin Paley
• You Can’t Say You Can’t Play by, Vivian Gussin Paley