The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind - Softcover

"This book is a valuable addition to parents' libraries...After reading it, parents can be enthralled as they watch their new babies imitate and learn the 'rules' of communication and speech learning. What an interesting book by three eminent 'baby watchers!'--T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Harvard Medical School

"This book is at once a masterful synthesis of the latest findings about the minds of children and a provacative argument that young children resemble practicing scientists. Few books about human development speak so eloquently to both scholars and parents."--Howard Gardner, Ph.D., author of Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences in the 21st Century

"[An] excellent book...it should be of interest to anyone curious about the human mind and its origins."--The Chicago Tribune

"The Scientist in the Crib is a triumph, a clear-headed account of the kinds of things that go on in the heads of young children....[This book] speaks in the voice of intelligent parents talking to other intelligent parents--witty, rather personal, and very well informed."--T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Harvard Medical School

"Meticulously researched, combining charm and erudition, humor and humanity, The Scientist in the Crib...should be placed in the hands of teachers, social workers, therapists, policymakers, expectant parents and everyone else who cares about children."--The Washington Post

A exciting review of the newest research on learning and infancy, drawing from hundreds of case studies, shows how children by the age of three are virtual learning machines and discusses how parents can help this learning process. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.