A child psychologist who has helped millions of parents across the country raise their babies and children in the last 45 years has rewritten her hugely popular book for a new generation. It is estimated there are 3million copies of Your Baby and Child in circulation across the country, with a number of versions released since the first edition in the 1970s.
But it has now had its most thorough rewrite and update, reports The Times, reflecting changing gender roles, technology and new attitudes.
Dr Leach said: “It was a case of rewrite or kill, frankly. It’s nearly 50 years since I wrote it, and it was a different world. The expectation was still that parents would be a heterosexual couple, that Daddy would go out to work and Mummy would primarily stay at home with the baby. Do you recognise today’s world? No, neither did I.”
