Red Flags or Red Herrings?: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become

Author:   Susan Engel
Publisher:   Atria Books
ISBN:  

9781501108075


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 November 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Red Flags or Red Herrings?: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become


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This compassionate guide for parents and readers ( Kirkus Reviews ) reveals how to distinguish between the childhood traits that are cause for concern, and those that are not. Every parent hopes their child will grow up to be happy, smart, popular, and successful--and as a result, many are anxious and eager to find clues to what their child's future will be. But with websites, media, and other parents providing an endless stream of advice about how to raise your children to be perfect, whom can a parent trust? Susan Engel draws on her years of experience as a developmental psychologist, educator, and mother to help parents and teachers identify behaviors that require intervention, while also providing reassurance about those that do not. Unlike many parenting experts, Engel encourages acceptance and perspective. Rambunctious children will calm down as they age and find activities to absorb their intellectual energy. Shy kids don't need to become un-shy --they simply need to learn how to reach out to others on a one-to-one level. Blending stories about real children with new ways of thinking and up-to-the-minute social and clinical research, Your Child's Path is both an absorbing narrative and an indispensable tool that will help restore parents' sanity and put the joy back in child rearing.

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Author:   Susan Engel
Publisher:   Atria Books
Imprint:   Atria Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781501108075


ISBN 10:   1501108077
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 November 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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The perfect antidote to the high anxiety that pervades parenting these days, Susan Engel's lovely book tells the wonderful truth that parents don't need to worry much, that children will grow up and become wonderful people if given a parent or two who loves them and the basic necessities. She urges parents to enjoy their children and bask in the warmth of their childhoods, rather than spend these glorious years in fretful states of apprehension and feckless fear. A superb and smart book. --Edward Hallowell, M.D., The Hallowell Center, New York City, and author of The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness


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Susan Engel is a developmental psychologist in the Department of Psychology at Williams College and the founder and director of the Williams Program in Teaching. She wrote a column on teaching for The New York Times called Lessons and is a cofounder of The Hayground School in Eastern Long Island.

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