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Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child |  | Author: Priscilla J. Dunstan
Creators: Linda Acredolo Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn Ph.D.
Publisher: Bantam
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Sales Rank: 75450
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.9 x 1
ISBN: 055380667X
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.4121
EAN: 9780553806670
ASIN: 055380667X
Publication Date: October 27, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Your infant is crying and you don’t know why. Your toddler refuses every kind of food–except one. Your preschooler wages war with you each morning over what to wear. Every day, parents struggle unsuccessfully to understand why their children act the way they do. Now child development expert Priscilla J. Dunstan breaks down those barriers to understanding with this revolutionary and accessible guide that teaches a new way of parenting–custom-designed for each child’s personality.
The product of eight years of groundbreaking research, this book will help you understand how your child interacts with the world. Dunstan begins from the premise that every child has his or her own dominant sensory “interface” with the world. Some children are highly sensitive to touch, others to sound or to sight. And some are unusually sensitive to all outside stimuli, especially taste and smell. This sensitivity affects how your child behaves, learns, and communicates from the very first days of life. Uncovering your child’s dominant sense–and knowing what your own dominant sense is–is essential for finding common ground and creating bonds of trust and intimacy with your child.
Use this book to
• take comprehensive “sense tests” to determine your child’s dominant sense–and your own
• understand how sensory overload plays out from infancy to age five, at home and in school
• learn why your child’s sensory personality shapes the way he or she instinctively reacts to new experiences and people
• appreciate the richness of your child’s emotional life, and help your child thrive in the outside world
For every parent who has ever looked at a child’s behavior and thought What is he trying to tell me?, Child Sense shows you how to find the answer.
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Everyone Should Read This Book! November 5, 2009
J. C. Zeiden
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Just bought Child Sense this weekend.. I actually couldn't put it down. I instantly recognized one of my children as a visual learner, based on Ms. Dunstan's detailed behavioral quiz -- and my other child as a taste/smell. I even identified my husband as a visual learner and me as a taste/smell.
What's kind of cool about the book is that you learn so much about your child but you also really get an insight into your own behavior and how you react to your children based on your own dominant sense. The quizzes are fun to take and later after determining your child's dominant sense, there is a section that pairs two different types of learners together, say Auditory and Tactile. If you are an Auditory Learner and your child is a Tactile learner how best to handle conflict? The author's methodology seems accurate and very common sense.
You will get a lot out of reading this book, as I did. For instance, because I discovered my 8 year old daughter is a visual learner, I tried putting her vegetables in colorful little ramikins on her plate. I never realized that when the veggies touched the other food it put her completely off of them. The past few days I can get her to eat most of her veggies just because they are separate and they seem fun to her because of the way they are served. My 10 year old taste/smell learning son could care less (Taste/Smell learners have a a hypersensitivity to other people's emotions and desires. They seem to be highly intuitive.) He eats his veggies because he knows it makes me happy and that's very important to him. He says things to his sister like, "eat the chicken Olivia! Mommy spent all afternoon making it!"
I'm telling you, the book will teach you a lot - truly. It really gave me extremely valuable insight into my children and even my husband!
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