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From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behaviour that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's life has been one of innovation and caring. Known internationally for the Touchpoints theory of regression and growth in infants and young children, Brazelton is also credited for bringing the insights of child development into pediatrics, and for his powerful advocacy in Congress.In Learning to Listen , fans of Brazelton and professionals in his field can follow both the roots of a brilliant career and the evolution of child-rearing into the twenty-first century.

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Kirkus Reviews , 4/1 The most fascinating parts of the memoir are most likely to be [Brazelton's] accounts of his experiences studying newborns in other cultures: Mayans in southern Mexico, Guatemalans, Kenyans, urban and rural Japanese, Chinese, Navajos in Arizona and Greeks on the island of Thera...Readers familiar with Brazelton's books and articles on babies and children may relish this close-up look at the man who guided them through the vicissitudes of parenthood.

Kirkus Reviews , 4/1 The most fascinating parts of the memoir are most likely to be [Brazelton's] accounts of his experiences studying newborns in other cultures: Mayans in southern Mexico, Guatemalans, Kenyans, urban and rural Japanese, Chinese, Navajos in Arizona and Greeks on the island of Thera...Readers familiar with Brazelton's books and articles on babies and children may relish this close-up look at the man who guided them through the vicissitudes of parenthood. <br><br> Booklist , 5/1/13 [An] affable memoir...It takes a special person to be a pediatrician, and Dr. Brazelton's remarkable life stamps him as a truly exceptional one. <br><br> Boston Globe, 4/26/13 Colorful stories. <br>InfoDad.com, 4/25/13 Very well written in a very New York if not quite New Yorker style, elevated and erudite and seeming to stand back from and examine experience even while experiencing it...[Gross] is certainly well-traveled and has met and written about some very interesting people. <br><br> Publishers Weekly , 5/6/13 [An] engaging memoir...Although many may know Brazelton from his books and TV show (What Every Baby Knows), here, he also chronicles his years of researching infants and families in such places as Kenya, Greece, Mexico, Guatemala, and Japan, with characteristic warmth and humor. <br>New York Journal of Books , 4/30/13 [A] sensitive memoir [that] fills a gap as to the theoretical and practical roots of contemporary child raising practice. Learning to Listen is a timely reminder (on Brazelton's 95th birthday) of his huge contribution to child rearing...A compassionate glimpse at the young boy and man who became such an internationally trusted pediatrician...Learning to Listen is a must-read for professionals and lay people alike--anyone interested in babies and in parenting.

Kirkus Reviews , 4/1 The most fascinating parts of the memoir are most likely to be [Brazelton's] accounts of his experiences studying newborns in other cultures: Mayans in southern Mexico, Guatemalans, Kenyans, urban and rural Japanese, Chinese, Navajos in Arizona and Greeks on the island of Thera...Readers familiar with Brazelton's books and articles on babies and children may relish this close-up look at the man who guided them through the vicissitudes of parenthood. <br><br> Booklist , 5/1/13 [An] affable memoir...It takes a special person to be a pediatrician, and Dr. Brazelton's remarkable life stamps him as a truly exceptional one. <br><br> Boston Globe, 4/26/13 Colorful stories. <br>InfoDad.com, 4/25/13 Very well written in a very New York if not quite New Yorker style, elevated and erudite and seeming to stand back from and examine experience even while experiencing it...[Gross] is certainly well-traveled and has met and written about some very interesting people.

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T. Berry Brazelton, MD, is professor emeritus of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and adjunct professor of psychiatry, human behaviour, and pediatrics at Brown University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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