1st Edition

Four years Old in an Urban Community

By John Newson, Elizabeth Newson Copyright 1968
608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

608 Pages
by Routledge

John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce 'a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally important - how... Read more

1. Background and introduction

2. The child in his context

3. Focus on four-year-olds

4. Pressures for independence

5. Social learning and the control of aggression

6. Rights and privileges of property and play

7. Shared and private worlds

8. Mealtimes and manners

9. Must we to bed indeed?

10. Rituals and comfort habits

11. Coda to toilet training

12. Who told thee that thou wast naked?

13. Patterns of persuasion and compulsion

14. Verbalization and the question of truth

15. Satisfaction and doubt in the parental role

Biography

John Newson, Elizabeth Newson