To Listen to a Child: Understanding the Normal Problems of Growing Up

To Listen to a Child: Understanding the Normal Problems of Growing Up
ISBN-10
0201632705
ISBN-13
9780201632705
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
1992-10-01
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Author
T. Berry Brazelton

Description

Fears, feeding, and sleep problems, croup and tantrums, stomachaches, asthma: these are some of the problems that every parent worries about at one time or another. According to Dr. Brazelton, most of these are a normal part of growing up. Only if parents add their own anxieties to the child's natural drive toward master will these "normal problems" become laden with guilt and tension and deepen into chronic issues. If parents can learn to listen, to hear the stress that may lie behind psychosomatic complaints, they can not only remove some of the excess pressures, but also help their children toward self-understanding.

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