Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Children Too Much - But Not What They Need

byDiane Ehrensaft

June 27, 1997|
Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Children Too Much - But Not What They Need by Diane Ehrensaft
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Vividly encapsulating the absurdities, heartbreaks, and possibilities of contemporary child rearing, this book shows how parents today are all too often caught up in a guilt-driven pendulum swing between parenting too little and parenting too much. Dr. Ehrensaft helps us imagine a society where we can overcome the treacherous balancing acts of work and family demands; where "good-enough" replaces perfect parenting, harriedness is traded for harmony, and children grow on a healthy continuum from infancy to adulthood.
Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area and Director of Mental Health and founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center, a partnership between the University of California San Francisco and community agencies. Dr. Ehrensaft''s research and writing focus on the areas o...
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Title:Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Children Too Much - But Not What They Need
Format:Hardcover
Product dimensions:263 pages, 9 X 6 X 0 in
Shipping dimensions:263 pages, 9 X 6 X 0 in
Published:June 27, 1997
Publisher:Guilford Publications
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781572302112

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