A Good Enough Parent : A Book on Child-Rearing

Bettelheim, Bruno

ISBN 10: 0394757769 / ISBN 13: 9780394757766

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Good Enough Parent : A Book on Child-Rearing
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394757769
• ISBN 13: 9780394757766
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

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.