The Only Child: How to Survive Being One - Softcover

Emerson; Pitkeathley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0285631489 ISBN 13: 9780285631489

Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

What is it like to be an only child, its advantages and disadvantages? How does the experience of being one effect a child's attitudes, relationships and future? Drawing on the experiences of a wide range of 60 only children, Jill Pitkeathley and David Emerson, both of whom are only children, explain the difficulties only children are faced with and how, as adults, they can learn to cope with these problems. At a time when couples are increasingly limiting their families to one child this book answers a pressing and growing need, It is a book that every parent or partner of an only child needs to read, as well as being a unique survival guide to relationships, friends and work for the only child.

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Review:

The only child survival guide. (Birmingham Evening Mail)

Narcissistic, intolerant, inflexible, unrealistic about personal relationships - spoilt brats, the lot. That's the received wisdom about lone children. Now find out the truth. (The Guardian)

So it's not just me, after all. Virginia Ironside thought her faults unique, but a book on only children has shown that she is not alone. (The Independent)

Book Description:

What is it like to be an only child, its advantages and disadvantages? How does the experience of being one affect a child's attitudes, relationships and future?

About this edition

• Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0285631489
• ISBN 13: 9780285631489
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276