◎contents 1. Introduction, 3 2. 15-16 months doing a lot with a little, 16 3. 17-18 months just one of the family, 27 4. 19-20 months emerging skills, 39 5. 21-22 months self-concept and object concepts, 52 6. 23-24 months consequences of self-awareness, 76 7. 25-26 months two-year-old talk, 94 8. 27-28 months talking about people and talk, 113 9. 29-30 months gaining control over a complex world, 126 10. 32-33 months preparing for second-order thinking, 143 11. 33-34 months the emergent preschooler, 157 12. 35-36 months prescholler paradoxes, 173 13. The path from infancy to childhood, 187