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Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life
Author(s): Stanley I. Greenspan (Author)
- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
- Publication Date: 14 Aug. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 0738209791
- ISBN-13: 9780738209791
Book Description
Parents all over the world have certain universal aspirations. They want their children to contribute meaningfully to society and to pursue their own dreams. But we appear to be missing the essentials. In this inspiring book, based on 30 years of research and practice, Dr. Stanley Greenspan redefines the qualities of an emotionally and intellectually healthy child and identifies the ways that parents can help their children develop each quality. The qualities that make us call a child a “great kid,” such as empathy, curiosity, and logical thinking, are fundamental and underlie all the academic, athletic, and social talents that a child might develop. We are not born with these traits, Greenspan demonstrates, they come from experience, which suggests that each and every parent can encourage them and that each and every child can strive to acquire them.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Spring 2009 “A well-written, highly informative book for the lay audience and professionals alike…As useful as it is readable…A successful aid for parents and caregivers who are in the trenches of child rearing…Far from being cookie-cutter or Pollyannaish, it addresses the complexities of humanity and human development.”
About the Author
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., author of the widely used and praised books The Challenging Child and (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) Engaging Autism, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
