Book review: "The Infant Mind" by Richard Restak

This 1986 book has some interesting nuggets, but you have to sift through a lot of gravel to find them.

I read this as a parent, hoping for some insights into the minds of my young children. I can't really recommend it for parents – there's too much technical and scientific background and not enough specifics.

Students or researchers interested in the infant brain from a scientific perspective might get more out of this book.

Unfortunately, the book is poorly organized – author Richard Restak seems to drift from one topic to the next with no clear sense of where he's going. But just when you're ready to give up, he'll offer a nice bit of information on the curiosities of how babies think.

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