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Your School-Age Child: From Kindergarten Through Sixth Grade - A Practical Guide to Understanding and Caring for Your Child During a Very Special Stage ... and (The Parent & Child Series , Vol 3)
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Product Description
Covers everything from preparing for the first day of school through helping children through the peer pressure of early adolescence, offering practical guidance on such topics as identifying warning signs, instilling discipline, stress, and social development. Reprint. PW.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1712462 in Books
- Published on: 1997-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 209 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Kutner's third entry in his four-part Parent & Child series places him firmly in the pantheon occupied by Spock, Brazelton, and Leach. A psychologist, Kutner writes a monthly child development column for Parents magazine and was "Parent and Child" columnist for the New York Times. He focuses here on the elementary-school years, which represent, "the first time in many families that a social institution has such profound effect on the parent-child relationship." In 10 succinct chapters, he covers subjects ranging from first-day-of-school jitters to peer pressure, concluding each section with enlightening, common-sense tips on dealing with specific problems. This, for example, on handling school-age children's growing demands for privacy: "Talk about privacy as a privilege, not a right.... Remind your children that even you have people-such as your employer and the Internal Revenue Service-checking whether you really did what you said you did." Kutner's writing is straightforward, warm, tuned in to both sides of the parent-child dynamic and enlivened by well placed, well aimed examples and often funny anecdotes. Parents encountering this series for the first time will wish they had known about Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year and Toddlers and Preschoolers.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
One of America's most popular psychologists and child development writers, Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D., writes a monthly child-development column for Parents magazine. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area.
