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Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children
As time-tested as it is timely, the expert advice in this book has helped thousands of readers improve on their parenting practices. Now, substantially revised and expanded, Growing Up Again offers further guidance on providing children with the structure and nurturing that are so critical to their healthy development--and to our own.
Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson
...morePaperback, Second Edition, 336 pages
Published
May 5th 1998
by Hazelden
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All parents should read this book. Also everyone who didn't receive ideal parenting (that's all of us). It will help you to fill in the gaps in your own development so that you can become more fully yourself, and accept yourself and that your parents did the best that they could. It will also help you to understand how to balance your parenting with your own children, as well as yourself.
This book was recommended by a counselor. and it has been extremely insightful and edifying. I found it particularly helpful that the book did not only focus on how to provide nurture and structure for a child, but also for ourselves. So often, the unforgiving voice in one's own head can hamper all progress, fulfillment, or joy.
Apr 01, 2008
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An easy read with good information.
Great book for any person who has children in their life.
Affirmations to development stages, the impact of different style of parenting on a child. You learn the internal message that sticks with them when you are critical or overindulgent.
The chapter on discounting alks about how a person experiences and emotions and what it looks like when you discount that. Insight is important because you can then choose to create change in your own behaviors towards self a...more
Great book for any person who has children in their life.
Affirmations to development stages, the impact of different style of parenting on a child. You learn the internal message that sticks with them when you are critical or overindulgent.
The chapter on discounting alks about how a person experiences and emotions and what it looks like when you discount that. Insight is important because you can then choose to create change in your own behaviors towards self a...more
I liked the beginning of this book. Some of it was a little obvious. I do like the developmental guides in the back of the book that list the job of the child at that stage and the job of the parent to foster the child's development and confidence. I plan to keep it on my bookshelf as a reference. Some examples of responses to teenagers were great!
There is a wonderful chart that categorizes styles of child-rearing, from abuse to respect to love to indulgence to neglect. The extremes of the spectrum, abuse and neglect, are similar in the degree of damage they do to the child.
learning the life lessons we missed as we parent our own children.
Reread Jan 2005.
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