The following is my choice of resource books that I have ordered in preparation for an upcoming birth. I probably won’t add a medical book as you can find good medical sites online, and I have the ability to call a government nurse over the phone in the province where I live. I am the type of person who doesn’t read manuals and skips around resource books. As a result, I don’t want to order too many resource books as I probably wouldn’t read them all, and I suspect I won’t have much time for reading!
I have heard high praise about the writings and research of Tim Seldin from my colleagues in the education field and decided to order his book How to Raise an Amazing Child. For more information about the work of Tim Seldin’s organization see www.montessori.org
Tim Seldin speaks about Montessori education:
I own a copy of Sylvana Montenaro’s book Understanding the Human Being, which focuses on the 0 – 3 age group from a Montessori perspective and have had the opportunity to attend a workshop Dr. Montenaro held in Japan. I wanted to find some recent contributions to body of work about the infant years from a Montessori perspective so I chose the Child’s Play activities based book shown above and the following book by Clare Healy. Volume 3 focuses on the 0 – 3 age group.
I received high praise about the book from a new mother and decided to have it on hand as a resource. Apparently it works well with the five principles of sleep (as described in the following link) and in the Happiest Baby on the Block book. Thoughts about babies sleep are varied and often contradictory. So I hesitate to commit to any one principle too quickly without a period of trial and error and observation.
The following book appears to be a good modern version of a Dr. Spock type primer.
