The Six Stages Of Parenthood

Galinsky, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0201105292 / ISBN 13: 9780201105292

Published by Addison-Wesley, 1987

About this Item

364 pages including index, bibliography, and notes. All the usual flaws of an ex-library book. The front cover is curved and ajar from the text. Some bent bottom corners. The text is clean and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 23051

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Six Stages Of Parenthood
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201105292
• ISBN 13: 9780201105292
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.38 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • CHILD DEVELOPMENT/PARENTING

About this title

Synopsis

Almost all books for parents focus on the way children develop. Ellen Galinsky, instead, writes about how parents develop. Drawing on the work in adult development of Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson, she describes six distinct stages in the life of a parent: the image-making that occurs during pregnancy; the nurturing role that swallows parents up from birth through the first couple of years; the authority parents must develop as small children show independence; the interpretive stage when parents explain the world and their values to school-age children; the interdependent stage when teenagers challenge authority; and the departure years when parents let go and take stock of their accomplishments and failures.

About the Author

Ellen Galinsky has been on the faculty of Bank Street College of Education in New York City for over twenty years. She directs many national and international research projects there and is a consultant on child and adult development to day-care programs, corporations, and the media. She is the author of The New Extended Family, Family Matters in the Preschool Years, and Beginnings.