Description
Dr Benjamin Spock is probably the world's most trusted and influential child care expert; for over forty years his classic Baby and Child Care has been an invaluable source of comfort and advice. But parents today are faced with increasingly complex challenges, and it is these problems, many of which he has personally experienced, that Spock addresses in this authoritative and accessible new book.
Parenting offers the guidance on bringing up children of all ages that so many parents have been waiting for: the problems of teenage discipline, anxiety about school performance, the risks of drug abuse and molestation, and how parents should talk to their children about subjects such as sex and death. As direct and humane as ever, Dr Spock looks at these, and dozens of other problems that preoccupy parents: whether mothers should decide to work, how best to tackle daycare, what the role of today's father is, and how to cope with the problems caused by divorce and step-parenting.
Throughout, Spock shares his powerful commitment to our greatest resource - our children, and to the responsibilities and choices involved in bringing them up to serve their fellow humans with co-operation, kindness and love. Reassuring, sensitive and eminently practical, like its predecessor, Parenting is a must for every family bookshelf.
ISBN: 9780718132798
