Laura Jana - The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Childs Tomorrow

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Jana, Laura, author.

The toddler brain: nurture the skills today that will shape your childs tomorrow / Laura Jana.

9781863959018 (paperback)

9781925435474 (ebook)

ToddlersDevelopment.

Child psychology.

Child rearing.

Parenting.

Parent and child.

Designed by Amy Quinn

Set in 12.25 point Joanna MT by Perseus Books

DR. LAURA JANA is a board-certified pediatrician and the award-winning author of Heading Home with Your Newborn and Food Fights. In addition to her position as Director of Innovation at the University of Nebraska College of Public Health, she holds a faculty appointment at Penn State Universitys Prevention Research Center and is a media spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She lives with her husband and three children in Omaha, Nebraska.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR
THE TODDLER BRAIN

This is such an important, timely, and assertive book. Presenting a wide range of relevant perspectives with professional insight and credibility, the fact that Dr. Janas voice comes through as a warm and caring parent serves as the magic sprinkles in this perfect recipe! This is a book that should be read by ALL parents and caregivers!

Mine Conkbayir, Early Childhood researcher, lecturer, and author of Early Childhood and Neuroscience

A compelling strategic plan for empowered parenting in the digital age, providing young children and parents with practical life enhancing tools for everyday brain building and 21st Century skill development.

Chip Donohue, PhD, Dean of Distance Learning & Continuing Education and Director of the TEC Center, Erikson Institute, and Editor, Family Engagement in the Early Years

In this valuable work, Dr. Jana masterfully translates a wealth of compelling early brain and child development research to make this information accessible to parents and anyone else in the business of helping children succeed. This book is easy to understand and infinitely applicable so readersand the children they care forare likely to greatly benefit from it!

Diana Fishbein, PhD, Co-Director, National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives

Powerful insights delivered in an engaging book that beautifully translates the latest research in early childhood into everyday parenting opportunities that will help children develop holistically and thrive in todays world.

Mark Greenberg, PhD, Bennett Chair on Prevention Science, Penn State University

Very timely and useful! As a pediatrician and CEO who never stopped wiggling and has a very long list of wobbles, this book is the best Ive seen on the why, how, and when of helping our children reach their full potential. Although great for toddlers, the insights and QI Skills defined in this book will undoubtedly benefit children (and adults) of all ages!

Jeff Thompson, MD, pediatrician, CEO Emeritus-Gundersen Health System

Dr. Laura Jana is a mover and shaker, a national treasure. Long may she write, speak, and inspire parents on the pathway to raising the best and brightest generation of children yet to come along.

Rosemary Wells, New York Times bestselling Childrens Book author

Describes in thoughtful parenting prose what we can do to best help young children develop the very same important human attributes now being clearly recognized as fundamental to adult success in the twenty first century.

Barry Zuckerman, MD, Chair Emeritus of Pediatrics, Boston University, Co-Founder of Reach Out & Read

It is now clearer than ever that the path for future success is set in the earliest years of life. In The Toddler Brain, Dr. Jana offers a wealth of thought-provoking and pr actical insights on how todays parents can help their children thrive and grow up to be happy, resilient, and creative adults.

Harvey Karp, MD, pediatrician and author of The Happiest Baby on the Block

A strategic plan for assembling the critical toolkit of twenty-first-century skills every child will need to thrive.

Reid Hoffman, entrepreneur, Chairman & Co-Founder, LinkedIn

If readers take Dr. Janas words to heart, todays children will be better equipped to solve tomorrows challenges, and the world will be a kinder, more compassionate place.

Jo Kirchner, CEO, Primrose Schools

This book is a stunning achievement that will dramatically empower everyone from parents to policymakers and reorient how we think about the first five years of life. Dr. Jana is a deep thinker who breaks traditional sector boundaries to offer fresh, practical, and innovative thinking about how best to insure the future success of societys most valuable resourceour children.

Joe Waters, Executive Vice President, Institute for Child Success

A groundbreaking perspective on teaching critical life skills to children today. Required reading for parents, teachers, pediatricians, and CEOs alike.

Ari Brown, MD, pediatrician and author of the Baby 411 book series

The Toddler Brain is practical, research-based, and highly relevant to parents and anyone dedicated to ensuring the health and well-being of childrenan innovative contribution to the world of child development.

Ann C. Crouter, PhD, Dean, Penn State College of Health and Human Development

This powerful book illustrates how the foundation for adult well-being is created in the earliest years and shows parents how to help young children build the social and emotional skills they will need throughout life.

Sara Watson, MPP, PhD, Global Director, Ready Nation

The Toddler Brain is a very user friendly, accessible, and understandable guide to parenting practice that gives great ideas and approaches that all parents can use.

Professors Tony Bertram & Chris Pascal, Centre for Research in Early Childhoed, Prasident/Vice President, Britise Association for Early Childhood Edueation

Also by Laura A. Jana

Heading Home with Your Newborn (with Jennifer Shu)

Food Fights (with Jennifer Shu)