The Irreducible Needs of Children:
What Every Child Must Have to Grow,
Learn, and Flourish by M.D. Stanley I.
Greenspan
Brilliant.
Parents can sometimes feel like ships being tossed in the storm--trying to
keep their households afloat amidst escalating child-care and health-care
costs, declining funding for public schools, and workplaces that do not
favor working families. The Irreducible Needs of Children reads like a
social compass, or better yet, a familys true north. T. Berry Brazelton, one
of the worlds most respected pediatricians, joins with one of the most
respected child psychiatrists, Stanley Greenspan, to offer parents, as well
as caregivers, teachers, policymakers, and even custody-hearing judges
clear-cut guidelines for rearing healthy, well-nurtured children. Each
chapter speaks to the fundamental priorities, such as The Need for
Ongoing, Nurturing Relationships or The Need for Limit Setting, Structure,
and Expectations. In every chapter the two doctors offer a lively dialog as

they boldly assert their child-rearing opinions based on solid research and
their collective years of wisdom. They then lead into a list of joint
recommendations. No topic is too controversial or specific for these hard-
core child advocates, including how many hours a baby or toddler should
be in child care per week (ideally less than 30), the importance of one-on-
one time, setting up child-oriented custody arrangements, and how much
homework or television a child should have each day. Although you may
not agree with every recommendation, this makes an excellent
navigational tool for parents and anyone else who controls the course of
childrens destinies. --Gail Hudson
Personal Review: The Irreducible Needs of Children: What
Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn, and Flourish by M.D.
Stanley I. Greenspan
This book is directed to parents but also to anyone who works with
children. It sums up the very heart of developmental pediatrics and what it
takes to support children in our society today. It it has a flowing read, as if
you were listening to our leading experts discuss and reflect, on their years
of experience, what sort of direction that needs to happen, if our children
are to be successful. Should be part of curriculum for teachers, medical or
nursing students, or any who work with children. I relied on information
obtained from the "What Every Baby Knows" series years ago and know
that it set me in the right direction in parenting. Our country needs more of
this. And we need it more now, than ever.
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