DREAM BABIES: CHILDCARE ADVICE FROM JOHN LOCKE TO GINA FORD

Book ID/图书代码： 11701207B19631

English Summary/英文概要： Parents have long been bombarded with conflicting advice on how to bring up their babies: from Locke, Rousseau, and Truby King to Spock, Penelope Leach and Gina Ford. Behaviourist warnings in the 1920s about physical contact (’Never hug and kiss them. Never let them sit in your lap’) swung to Jean Liedloff’s ’continuum concept’ that babies should be wrapped round mum and fed on demand. Today enthusiasts for the ’family bed’ are at war with Gina Ford’s call for a return to the strict routines of pre-Spock days. Who is right and who is wrong?
In this updated edition of her classic account of how and why the experts’ advice has changed with changing times, Christina Hardyment analyses the anxieties of our own age and gives parents much-needed confidence in their own ability to choose the advice that best suits them and their babies.
This is a much revised and enlarged new edition of a book that I first wrote to cheer myself and other parents up when I was having our [four] children. Now they are having babies of their own, and I realized that parents are more than ever in need of guidance through the jungle of conflicting advice on how to bring up babies. Dream Babies shows how advice has always changed with the times – not just because of scientific and medical discoveries but because of social and economic pressures. With over 200 illustrations, including colour sections, it puts such legendary figures as Truby King, Dr Spock, Penelope Leach and Gina Ford into perspective.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當父母再養育自己的子女時，常會受到許多外來的批評或建議，而這些意見有時還自相矛盾，從英國的哲學家約翰‧洛克(John Locke)、母嬰健康協會的創辦人金‧突比爵士(Truby King)、全球知名的小兒科醫生史巴克(Dr. Benjamin Spock)到英國最知名的保母吉娜．福特(Gina Ford)他們都有各自對育兒教育的獨特見解。嬰孩的行為學家曾在1920年提出，關於小孩的身體接觸方面，父母其實不應該抱和親小孩，也不能把小孩抱在膝上；而珍．萊德羅芙(Jean Liedloff)則在《富足人生的原動力》(continuum concept)一書中表示父母應以最自然的方式去『陪伴』孩子成長，而不是將孩子塑造成自己心中的模樣，或是社會化期待的樣子。而今日吉娜．福特所提出的回歸史巴克時期的嚴謹育兒方式卻與提倡「父母與嬰孩同床」(family bed is also called sleep-sharing)的專家產生極大的對立。而到底是什麼才是最佳的育兒方法？本書將詳盡介紹育兒教育的歷史演變及未來。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Christina Hardyment has written books and articles on dizzying range of subjects (including her collection of historical sewing machines, domestic technology, family life and a biography of Sir Thomas Malory). She lives in a rambling house in Oxford with a huge garden, where she is already planning camps and a treehouse for her grandchildren. Time off is spent sailing on the river, in a British Moth dinghy.

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