Overview: WHAT MATTERS? For family wellbeing, from author Dr. Rosemary Roberts, is about companionable life at home with babies and small children, using belonging and behavior together for resilient wellbeing and mental health.

Verdict: In truth, WHAT MATTERS? For Family Wellbeing: Babies, Young Children, and their Companions’ Mental Health and Happiness is a small book about a big subject: the long-term health and happiness of babies, young children, and their companions at home. Based on research evidence, it raises questions about what matters for all concerned.

Not only parents but also grandparents, other family members, friends, and neighbors may be child carers at home these days. WHAT MATTERS? describes a financially manageable and practical approach, with babies and young children center stage.

It explains the link between belonging and behavior, illuminates how children learn, and suggests many companionable activities with babies and children, involving minimal expenditure.

There is also a focus on adults’ wellbeing, especially for mothers during the first year, while looking ahead at the common ground between toddlers and teenagers.

In what is a highly informative, yet dutifully concise new prose from Roberts, she provides ample knowledge, important facts, and dedicated, heartfelt assurances to parents within its pages, and all without overwhelming them. Each chapter provides important questions and answers, and yet always focuses in on what really matters re: the overall wellbeing of babies, children, their carers and, of course, their families.

In closing, WHAT MATTERS? can make life easier for everyone, contributing to families’ long-term mental health and happiness. Thus I highly recommend that everyone even the slightest bit interested in this subject matter buy this book today!

About the Author - Dr. Rosemary Roberts is an early years consultant and writer. She holds a post-graduate diploma from the Tavistock Clinic UK in Psychoanalytic Observational Studies, and a PhD ‘Companionable learning: the development of resilient wellbeing from birth to three’. She has worked in nursery, primary and higher education and the voluntary sector, and has published two books. She lives in York, UK.

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