For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to view the psychological development and growth of a child first hand. Integrating scientific research with careful observation and questioning, this unique study investigates what it is like to be a newborn baby, an infant on the threshold of language, and a toddler testing out autonomy. Using Athena as a case study, Fernyhough vividly describes the huge amount of mental work children undertake right from birth, including the newborn’s task of learning about objects and people; the toddler’s forging of a self; the development of a sense of time and space; and the process of coming to grasp with the transforming power of the imagination. En route, he explains in simple terminology the ideas of the great child psychologists including Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bowlby and introduces some of the latest neuroscientific and developmental research. Written with a father’s tenderness and a keen scientific eye, this funny, touching, and fascinating investigation will allow parents and all those interested by child development to understand the extraordinary journey a child makes during the first three years of life.
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Charles Fernyhough is a professor of psychology and the author of the novel The Auctioneer.
"Fernyhough points out the milestones of development that could be so easily missed when embedded in everyday acts of play . . . tackles the big questions, but at a level that a lay reader can follow." —Nature
"The most poetic popular science book of the year. His beautifully expressed wonderment at the bizarre mixture of learning and forgetting that is toddlerhood is infectious, and makes this a hard book to put down." —Sunday Telegraph
"It's fascinating about memory and lost time . . . and the ineffable process by which children acquire language and a sense of selfhood and orientation." —Time Out
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