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Parenting for Authentic Success
Harper
August 2012
On Sale: July 24, 2012
323 pages
ISBN: 0061824747
EAN: 9780061824746
Kindle: B00767930I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Self-Help
Psychologist Madeline Levine brings together cutting-edge
research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode
once and for all the myth that good grades, high test
scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting
endgame. Parents, educators, and the media wring their
hands about the plight of America's children and
teens—soaring rates of emotional problems, limited coping
skills, disengagement from learning and yet there are ways
to reverse these disheartening trends. Teach Your
Children Well acknowledges that every parent wants
successful children. However, until we are clearer about our
core values and the parenting choices that are most likely
to lead to authentic, and not superficial, success, we will
continue to raise exhausted, externally driven, impaired
children who believe they are only as good as their last
performance. Real success is always an inside job, argues
Levine, and is measured not by today's report card but by
the people our children become fifteen or twenty years down
the line. Refusing to be diverted by manufactured
controversies such as "tiger moms versus coddling moms,"
Levine confronts the real issues behind the way we push some
of our kids to the breaking point while dismissing the
talents and interests of many others. She shows us how to
shift our focus from the excesses of hyperparenting and the
unhealthy reliance on our children for status and meaning to
a parenting style that concentrates on both enabling
academic success as well as developing a sense of purpose,
well-being, connection, and meaning in our children's
lives. Teach Your Children Well is a call to
action. And while it takes courage to make the changes we
believe in, the time has come, says Levine, to return our
overwrought families to a healthier and saner version of
themselves.
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