![]() ![]() With her husband, Dr Plooij, she studied infant development in free-living chimpanzees with Dr. The late Hetty van de Rijt-Plooij received her PhD at Cambridge University as a physical anthropologist. Psychol., consultant clinical psychologist and Head of Pediatric Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England ‘The Wonder Weeks’ is essential reading for everyone who works with infants: pediatricians, social workers, psychologists, and, of course, parents.” (John Richer, Ph.D., Dip. This parent-child connection is the major prerequisite for the development of secure, well-adjusted children. What’s more, van de Rijt and Plooij have described the play and communication that work best with babies at different ages and thus helped parents understand and connect sensitively with their babies. Together, this gives parents and professionals soundly based insight into babies’ developing minds. Not only have they explained the periods of puzzling, difficult behavior in infancy which so worry parents, they have also shown how these behaviors mark developmental leaps and have described the stages in the infant’s understanding. “van de Rijt and Plooij’s work on infant development has enormous value for clinical use and scientific application. “Anyone who deals with infants and young children will want to read ‘The Wonder Weeks.’ This book will open parents’ eyes to aspects of their children’s growth, development, changing behavior, and emotional responsiveness that they might otherwise not notice or find puzzling and distressing.” (Catherine Snow, Ph.D., Shattuck Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education). Berry Brazelton, M.D., professor emeritus, Harvard Medical School ![]() The authors’ observations and practical suggestions are wonderful.” (T. van de Rijt and Plooij have observed and found the vulnerable times in an infant’s development that I independently came to in my book Touchpoints (Perseus). ![]() “This is a very practical and entertaining window into the baby’s first year and a half.
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