John Newson and Elizabeth Newson in addition to this book are authors of The Family and the Handicapped Child: A Study of Cerebral Palsied Children in Their Homes and Infant Care in an Urban Community. They were professors of psychology at the University of Nottingham.

• 1: Background and Introduction; 2: The Child in his Context; 3: Focus on Four-Year-Olds; 4: Pressures for Independence; 5: Social Learning and the Control of Aggression; 6: Rights and Privileges of Property and Play; 7: Shared and Private Worlds; 8: Meal Times and Manners; 9: Must We to Bed Indeed?; 10: Rituals and Comfort Habits; 11: Coda to Toilet Training; 12: Who Told Thee that Thou Wast Naked?; 13 1: Patterns of Persuasion and Compulsion; 14 1: Verbalization and The Question of Truth; 15: Satisfaction and Doubt in the Parental Role