BabyLoving

BABYLOVING is a comfortable and reassuring read to new parents. Hiag Akmakjian, as a Book of the Month Club author and an authority on babies and childhood development, explains in his new book how emotions grow in the first 36 months of life. Writing in a cheerful and conversational tone, he discusses, among many topics, how a baby learns to tolerate frustration. The importance of love and hugging in the baby’s development. Where healthy self-esteem comes from. How compassion develops to help a baby become a more “human” and loving being. 


Akmakjian, a graduate of Columbia University and several psychological institutes, draws on his 40 years of work in the field of child development. He has been a guest lecturer at New York University Medical Center, and the prestigious Princeton Center for Infancy and Early Childhood cites him along with Benjamin Spock and T. Berry Brazelton in the dedication of its series of books on child development. Of Akmakjian’s earlier work on babies and parenting, American Baby wrote: “The advice is sensible, the scope broad, and the approach understandable.” And the Library Journal: “A very interesting, well-written, and sound modern analysis of child development . . . a cheerful, practical book which it’s hard not to like.”