piRaising Happy Healthy Children iis a fully updated second edition of iWhat Children and Babies Really Needi. With new information carefully added, this book examines the crucial early years from a child's perspective. It draws on the latest scientific research to show how the first few years determine the way children develop, body and mind, for the rest of their lives.ppThe keys to this development are parents, and in particular mothers. A society which really cares for its children, says Sally Goddard Blythe, values parents, and makes it possible for them to spend time and be actively involved with their children for at least the first two years of life. iRaising Happy Healthy Children ipresents convincing research to show how a baby's relationship with its mother has a lasting, deep impact. Recent social changes, such as delayed motherhood, juggling of worklife balance, limited uptake of breastfeeding, and use of parent-substitute baby equipment and electronic devices, are interfe