A Good Enough Parent: The Guide to Bringing Up Children

By Bruno Bettelheim, BETTELHEIM, Bruno Bettleheim

Book Overview

In this book, the preeminent child psychologist of our time gives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what is most crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not to give parents preset rules for raising their children, but rather to show them how to develop their own insights so that they will understand their own and their children's behavior in different situations and how to cope with it. Above all, he warns, parents must not indulge their impulse to try to create the child they would like to have, but should instead help each child fully develop into the person he or she would like to be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394757769
• ISBN13: 9780394757766
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Amazing...A Must have..

This is a sophisticated read - but well worth it! I am a child therapist and child development specialist and believe this book to be the bible of healthy child-rearing. Bettelheim is brilliant, caring and compassionate. Take time to read this prize, maybe 6 months or so. Read it slowly so that you can pick up all the messages and insights that he offers. Other great reads are Rudolf Driekers, "Children the Challenge." Try reading, Adele Faber's "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen" or Mary Kurcinka's "Kids, Parents and Power Sruggles." Kimberley Clayton Blaine, MA, MFT Licensed Child Therapist founder, www.TheGoToMom.TV Author: Mommy Confidence: 8 Easy Steps to Reclaiming Balance, Motivation, and Your Inner Diva

He thinks it is ok for kids to believe in Santa, etc! Yay!

Marvelous book - have referred back to it many times for encouragement and reinforcement of my own parenting "beliefs". When I have grandkids, this will be my first gift to the prospective parents