Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core Personality - Softcover

Gurian, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470322527 ISBN 13: 9780470322529

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2009

Synopsis

From Michael Gurian, the best-selling author of The Minds of Boys and The Wonder of Girls, comes the next-step book that shows how any parent can tune into a child’s unique core personality, hard wiring, temperament, and genetic predisposition in order to help that child flourish and thrive.

Based on the most recent brain research, Nurture the Nature features the Ten Tips for Nurturing the Nature of Your Baby, self-tests, checklists, and many other tools for you to help your kids get exactly the kind of support they need, from infants to adolescents.

While offering positive ideas for nurturing your child, Gurian also shows how to avoid the stress, pressures, and excessive competition of what he identifies as social trends parenting. Most parents know instinctively that their child is unique and has special potential, weaknesses, and strengths. No child is a blank slate. Gurian calls on parents to turn away from one-size-fits-all approaches and instead support the individual core nature of a child with effective and customized loving care.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Gurian is a family therapist and the New York Times best-selling author of The Wonder of Boys, The Wonder of Girls, The Good Son, Boys and Girls Learn Differently! and The Minds of Boys, among many others. He is cofounder of the Gurian Institute and a pioneer in the fields of family development, education, and gender studies. He has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, CNN, NPR, and in the New York Times, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere.

From the Back Cover

From Michael Gurian, the best-selling author of The Minds of Boys and The Wonder of Girls, comes the next-step book that shows how any parent can tune into a child's unique core personality, hard wiring, temperament, and genetic predisposition in order to help that child flourish and thrive.

PRAISE FOR Nurture the Nature

"Gurian's presentation is comprehensive and peppered with fascinating facts (i.e., how pheromones of biological fathers affect the onset of girls' puberty or how parts of a toddler's brain actually swell during a tantrum). The author's new text will help parents begin, in the tradition of Maria Montessori, to 'follow the child,' rather than adapt their kids to a contemporary one-size-fits-all mold." Publishers Weekly

"As scientifically sound as it is humane."
HAROLD S. KOPLEWICZ, M.D., chairman, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, and founder and director, New York University Child Study Center

"Nurture the Nature is thorough, thoughtful, accurate, and brilliant. The science is sound and well researched."
DANIEL AMEN, M.D., author, Making a Good Brain Great

"Nurture the Nature should be mandatory reading for parents who want their children to mature into happy, healthy human beings which is of course all of us!"
DR. TRACEY J. SHORS, Department of Psychology, Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University

From the Inside Flap

From Michael Gurian, the best-selling author of The Minds of Boys and The Wonder of Girls, comes the next-step book that shows how any parent can tune into a child's unique core personality, hard wiring, temperament, and genetic predisposition in order to help that child flourish and thrive.

PRAISE FOR Nurture the Nature

"Gurian's presentation is comprehensive and peppered with fascinating facts (i.e., how pheromones of biological fathers affect the onset of girls' puberty or how parts of a toddler's brain actually swell during a tantrum). The author's new text will help parents begin, in the tradition of Maria Montessori, to 'follow the child,' rather than adapt their kids to a contemporary one-size-fits-all mold."—Publishers Weekly

"As scientifically sound as it is humane."
—HAROLD S. KOPLEWICZ, M.D., chairman, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, and founder and director, New York University Child Study Center

"Nurture the Nature is thorough, thoughtful, accurate, and brilliant. The science is sound and well researched."
—DANIEL AMEN, M.D., author, Making a Good Brain Great

"Nurture the Nature should be mandatory reading for parents who want their children to mature into happy, healthy human beings—which is of course all of us!"
—DR. TRACEY J. SHORS, Department of Psychology, Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470322527
• ISBN 13: 9780470322529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368