TY - BOOK AU - Mercer,Jean ED - Sage eBooks TI - Child development: myths and misunderstandings SN - 9781452275529 (ebook) : AV - HQ772 .M437 2013 U1 - 305.231 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Thousand Oaks, California PB - SAGE Publications KW - Child development KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Previous edition: 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The book can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://sk.sagepub.com/books/child-development-myths-misunderstandings-2e ER -