
Description
What is the most treasured resource for families with young children? Time. Between keeping house, shopping, doing chores, and getting everyone to work and school -- let alone fitting in family meals, fun activities, and much-needed downtime -- being a parent can require major feats of scheduling. While parents don't always have hours to pore over parenting books, they could use short, to-the-point advice on the challenges they confront every day.
Now, for today's busy families, child-development expert and bestselling author David Elkind offers Parenting on the Go: an authoritative, accessible guide for parents of infants and young children. Elkind has long been praised for his timely, resonant responses to key child-rearing issues. Here, with characteristic insight and comforting sensibility, he offers practical answers to more than 100 common parenting questions, on topics from A to Z, including:
Attention Deficit Disorders
Back-to-School Blues
Child-Proofing the Computer
Empathy in Children
Homework
Manners and Morals
Only Children
Sibling Rivalry
Time-Outs
and much more.
Praise for David Elkind
"The Power of Play should be considered one of the primers for good parenting." -- Chicago Parent
"[O]ffers excellent perspectives on children, parents, and culture . . . this powerful book is essential reading." -- Library Journal on The Hurried Child
"Elkind . . . is a child-study specialist of eminent common sense . . . whom parents would do well to heed." -- Publishers Weekly
Product Details
Publisher | Balance |
Publish Date | July 08, 2014 |
Pages | 288 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780738217505 |
Dimensions | 8.1 X 5.4 X 0.8 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
Publishers Weekly, 7/7/14
"An astute and easy-to-read abecedary of tips for parenting tots...Elkind is especially attuned to questions about the challenges of parenting that were unheard of a century, or even a generation, ago...This breezy but substantive guide will make a terrific baby shower present and will find a welcome place on many a bedside table."
Philadelphia Tribune, 7/31/14
"[A] quick, easy guide to kids."
Bookviews, August 2014
"Covers a wide range of subjects and offers solutions to run-of-the-mill concerns as well as the more multifaceted issues...Dr. Elkind gives 500-word answers to more than a hundred of the most common questions parents ask."
Hudson Valley News, August 2014
"Big issues here, such as the right amount of computer time, (the biggie) 'bad language, ' sibling rivalry, homework issues, manners, you name it."
Midwest Book Review, September 2014
"This book packs in plenty of facts to over a hundred of the most common questions parents have."
San Francisco Book Review, 9/5/14
"This is not your average parenting guide...There is plenty of fantastic information to be found here...Elkind's liberal and open approach to many a topic considered taboo is commendable."
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