Raising Children with Character: Parents, Trust, and the Development of Personal Integrity

By Elizabeth Berger

Book Overview

Parents and clinicians share a deep interest in promoting children's personal maturity and character development. Dr. Elizabeth Berger, mother, child psychiatrist, and educator, addresses this concern by calling upon her own personal experiences and professional expertise.

The goal of therapists and parents alike is to understand children's emerging character, recruiting the wise and mature aspects of the personality in an effort to surmount difficulties. Dr. Berger identifies general themes in the intimate relationship between parent and child and shows how to support and enhance the forward direction of the child's character growth. Rich vignettes illustrate how ordinary family interactions involving issues such as authority, sharing, schoolwork, money, sexuality, and others can promote this growth process. Concentrating on the long-term unfolding of the child's inner spirit, the parents' mission is redefined, as struggles over behavior management give way to learning to trust and enhance the child's emerging maturity. Addressing both parents and clinicians, this intelligent, well-written, and thought-provoking book offers practical advice and deep understanding of the emotional bond between parent and child.

A Jason Aronson Book

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765702142
• ISBN13: 9780765702142
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Parenting Guide for Nurturing Character!

Dr. Elizabeth Berger, M.D. has created a supremely intelligent and comprehensible guide for parents who are raising children. We are taught to navigate the path to helping our children develop character and integrity. Through her obviously vast clinical experiences, Dr. Berger helps parents--or anyone raising children--understand ways to nurture children toward being loving and responsible people. In doing so, she reminds us of the qualities needed to be those loving and responsible people ourselves. As a clinician, I am delighted that I can now offer this book to any of my clients with children.

Every Parent Must Read!

I take parenting very seriously and have read numerous books on various psychological aspects of child rearing, but this one finally puts it all together! It is an easily understandable description of the stages of a child's emotional development. It also specifically provide tools and techniques for parents to constructively support their children individually asthey develop. Dr. Berger has truly provided me with the roadmap to allowing my children to be themselves and the appropriate methods for their support in this process!