Children need caring and well-informed adults in their lives. This book will give readers a fuller, more compassionate understanding of development as they prepare to work with, study or live with children. Organized chronologically, this book teaches the principles of development and encourages readers to reflect on their own personal experience of development. Exploring Development through Childhood stresses the dynamic role of the environment, as well as biology and culture, in the developmental context. Though the book is research based, the tone is warm and personal with plenty of examples to which readers can relate. For parents, teachers, aspiring psychologists, or anyone with an interest in child development.