Learning to Listen: A Life Caring for Children (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
Brazelton has held a lot of babies in his ­lifetime. In this affable memoir, the celebrated pediatrician reviews a lifetime of service to children and their parents. Growing up in Texas, Brazelton was placed in charge of his nine young cousins at all family gatherings beginning when he was only 10 years old. During adolescence, he figured out that the way animals behaved was their form of communication. To help pay for medical school, Brazelton sold his blood and waited on tables. He served in the navy in WWII. Combining an interest in pediatrics and child psychiatry, he became an expert in child development and early parent-infant relationships. His curiosity, research, and advocacy for newborn children have taken him around the world. He’s written many popular books, including his Touchpoint series, and columns for Redbook and Family Circle, and he had his own cable TV show, What Every Baby Knows. It takes a special person to be a pediatrician, and Dr. Brazelton’s remarkable life stamps him as a truly exceptional one. --Tony Miksanek