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# A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind Paperback – May 4, 2010

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- **What is this?** A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist's Chronicle of His Daughter's Developing Mind Paperback – May 4, 2010 by charles fernyhough
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## Customer Reviews

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    Interesting book for those who are interested in how a baby's brain works
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2012*

I first heard of this book while listening to NPR.  There was an interview with the author and after listening to it, I was eager to read the book.I have three children.  I'm lucky that as I've had the opportunity to observe their development 24/7.  Even so, they did have some behaviors that have perplexed me and it was really neat to read some of the scientific reasoning behind their behaviors.  This book went into more depth than most child development books.  However, I do wish it would have gone in even deeper as I left wanting more.It was easy to relate to the author in is experiences with his daughter.  I recognized many of the behaviors and situations that he mentioned.  I also really loved that he seemed to really enjoy the time he spent with his daughter.  Even though this book is written from a scientist's point of view, It is obvious that he really put his heart into writing this book.While this isn't applicable to most people and wasn't the point of the book - it also helped me realize some of the differences between toddlers with autism-related disorders.  I have a son with Aspergers, and while reading this book, I could kind of see how he was developing differently from the beginning.  I think that if I had read this book before he was born, it would have alerted me to these differences earlier on.

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    Mixed Genres
  

*by Y***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2014*

I started off eagerly on Charles Fernyhough’s scientific inquiry into his daughter’s developing mind. The first part is hard science, the neurological development of the human brain in the fetus and in infancy. Here I learned a lot—most memorably that an infant’s stare is not one of pure adoration but rather a function of its inability to shift its gaze easily. I think anyone interested in babies could benefit from his descriptions and insights here. We see Fernyhough’s daughter, Athena, develop from infancy to toddlerhood. The family temporarily moves from England to Australia, and his description of her anticipation and adjustment to new surroundings is on steady footing.There follows an idyll while father and daughter set off on various outings while, presumably, Mother is at work. These outings are, of course, Father’s work as well. Here his observations shift a bit from the purely neurological to more developmental. He measures her behavior against various theories of child development—Piaget’s most significantly, as well as Freud’s and Bettleheim’s—and goes on to discuss Bowlby’s attachment theories. Athena emerges as an engaging child, sturdy and steadily gaining independence. She can even cope with the news that a sibling is on the way.What follows is more memoir than scientific inquiry. His wife miscarries and they fall into a pit of grief. The focus shifts from Athena to a story of lost potential. The author wonders how Athena makes sense of it all, but he neatly sidesteps the topic of trauma during the first five years by quoting Freud that all is forgotten, while he tells Athena a familiar story about God and Heaven. Then, we fast-forward to a seven year-old Athena with a sturdy baby brother. I felt as though he lost interest in his inquiry, and it was disappointing.

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    Interesting read, a little dry
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2012*

Having just watched my first daughter take this journey, and now expecting my next, I thought this would be a perfect time to read a book about the development of a toddler's brain.  There is a lot of interesting information in here, filling in some of the gaps in the knowledge that I've picked up over the years from reading standard parenting material.It's a little dry and drags at times, but I found it worth the effort.  I don't think I would recommend this to everybody, but for science geeks & prospective parents it should be worth checking out.

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