Many years ago I wrote a book called Growing Children. My co-author, Freda Rebelsky, and I have been asked how people can get copies as it is out of print. We tried to interest some publishers in re-printing it but there was no interest. Maybe because it was a paperbound book and only 70 pages of text... [read cheap to do and can't sell for $100]. So with blogging abounding I decided to do a blog with the same name and as I hold the copyright I will publish some of it here and add more..
If there is a ground swell of interest in the book as a book, I can make it into a pdf file and offer it for sale here -
and in the interim you can read my blog for free -
I recently taught an online course in lifespan development and one thought that ran through my head was that there is a lot more information available all the time and seemingly each year a new edition of a book appears and the costs are around $100. Yes we learn more about development all the time - but does that mean we need to keep re-doing book? Isn't there some part of development that more or less stays consistent? Or isn't there basic information for people who are not going to be psychologists in the academic world...
I think so- Psychology for the non-psychology major....for the parent, the high school student, the engineer, the CEO, the HR person etc...anyone who wants information without the list of the studies that led up to the information.
That is what Growing Children was originally intended to be - it was a small textbook on child development for the non-psych major and now it will be the blog for whoever wants to know about child development...
