The Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting - Hardcover

Steinberg, Laurence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743251156 ISBN 13: 9780743251150

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2004

Synopsis

A guide to raising happy and healthy children discusses adapting a parenting style to match a particular child's needs, establishing limits, and promoting such qualities as honesty, kindness, and independence.

About this title

Review:

"Distills decades of research into a simple guide for moms and dads in the trenches."
-- Newsweek

"[Steinberg] helps parents apply the science of child development to their relationships with their children. It is warm, insightful, and eminently practical."
-- Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D., Codirector, Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media

"Steinberg offers sage advice as well as pragmatic steps to follow, in the hopes that you can learn to become a more 'mindful' parent."
-- The Boston Globe

About the Author:

Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University and a former president of the Society for Research on Adolescence. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Steinberg is the author or coauthor of several previous books, including You and Your Adolescent and Beyond the Classroom. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Ladies' Home Journal, and The Washington Post, among other publications. He lives with his family in suburban Philadelphia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743251156
• ISBN 13: 9780743251150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224