The Magic Years

By Selma H. Fraiberg,

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1 author picked The Magic Years as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The best book I know to understand the emotions of toddlers and how to help regulate those emotions.  Fraiberg is brilliant at taking complicated psychoanalytic and attachment knowledge and putting it into a readable and accessible form to help everyone from clinicians to parents.

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