Originally written for students at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, this guide to child development offers an overview of child development for parents, teachers, and all adults concerned with raising children. Many of the book's ideas come from direct work with children and draw on Rudolf Steiner's approach to child development. The book's chapters are: (1) "Outer Aspects of Child Development Considered as a Whole"; (2) "The Child from Birth to Three"; (3) "The Child between Three and Six"; (4) "Temperament and Personality"; (5) "Children from Seven to Ten"; (6) "The Years from Eleven to Fifteen"; (7) "The First Adventure into Adult Life--Young People between Sixteen and Twenty"; and (8) "Epilogue: Threshold of Adult Life--21." Contains 92 references and a list of suggested further reading. (EV)

Focuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions and experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their parents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them were painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversity. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very different ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of interviews as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.

Dr Herbert Barrie was a leading figure in paediatrics and a pioneer in neonatology. He passed away in 2017 yet his story lives on in his own words. Now published by his son, Putting Tiny Patients Firs t is a collection of tributes, articles, editorials and anecdotes penned by this astonishing man and those that knew him best, spanning a staggering career that hugely advanced paediatrics and neonatology. As a paediatrician he was much sought after, looking after the children of actors, politicians and the aristocracy - but he was best known for his ground-breaking work in the care of the preterm infant. In his early days, Herbert would reward his medical team with champagne whenever they had a survivor of a difficult neonatal ordeal. This was a time when very few babies born before 32 weeks survived, and those who did often suffered brain damage. Dr Herbert Barrie pioneered advances in resuscitation of the newborn; he published his findings and a film showing the practicalities of resuscitating a preterm infant was shown around the country. But his work went further: Herbert penned hundreds of articles and stories in a wide assortment of journals, periodicals and magazines. Highbrow articles detailing his research, amusing anecdotes, commentaries that were necessarily controversial. Many are included in this elegant book. Putting Tiny Patients First , compiled and edited by his son, tells the inspiring story of Herbert Barrie’s life as a paediatrician.