A Good Enough Parent: Book on Child Rearing

Bettelheim, Bruno

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330302701 ISBN 13: 9780330302708

Publisher: Pan Books, 1988

Pan paperback owned from new since 1988. Intact bright covers and spine, no shelf damage, clean text with no annotations or folded page corners. Kept in smoke free home. UK seller. Name and date inside front cover.

About the Author:

Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1903. He received his doctorate at the University of Vienna and came to America in 1939, after a year in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. He was a distinguished professor of education and professor of both psychology and psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He died in 1990.

From the Inside Flap:

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.