Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life

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Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life Pub. Date: 8/13/2007 Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Parents all over the world have certain universal aspirations. They want their children to contribute meaningfully to society and to pursue their own dreams. But we appear to be missing the essentials. In this inspiring book, based on 30 years of research and practice, Dr. Stanley Greenspan redefines the qualities of an emotionally and intellectually healthy child and identifies the ways that parents can help their children develop each quality. The qualities that make us call a child a "great kid,” such as empathy, curiosity, and logical thinking, are fundamental and underlie all the academic, athletic, and social talents that a child might develop. We are not born with these traits, Greenspan demonstrates, they come from experience, which suggests that each and every parent can encourage them and that each and every child can strive to acquire them.

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American School Board Journal

[An] inspiring and quick-to-read book.[Greenspan] redefines the commonly held definition of an emotionally and intellectually healthy child.Educators and parents are always on the lookout for the latest and best `parent help' book. Great Kids should be high on everyone's list. This book offers clear and compelling directions on how to fill our schools and our society with great people.

Deseret Morning News

Even if you inherently distrust books that list the `magic 10' items of whatever, Great Kids, a wise book by a prolific author and top expert in pediatrics, is worth consideration. The traits he focuses on are qualities of great importance and depth.He uses anecdotes to underline all his essential points and does it in a conversational style that is reader-friendly.Each of the qualities Greenspan discusses is fully developed from child status to adult status through solid research and clear explanation, and by using lively anecdotes.

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Minnesota Parent

No catchy subtitle, no shtick, maxim, or system. No list of parenting potholes, of ways things might spiral out of control-just a book about great kids.in clear, accessible language.

Parent Magazine

A topical, informative, and well-thought-out book, it will stay relevant throughout your child's life as they go through the many stages of development.

Library Journal

We all know great kids when we meet them, but what is it, exactly, that makes them "great"? An internationally recognized leader in child psychiatry, Greenspan (psychiatry & pediatrics, George Washington Univ. Medical Sch.; The Challenging Child) worked with experts from the nonprofit organization Zero-to-Three to survey leaders in such fields as medicine, law, the arts, education, and business to identify characteristics defined as critical to success in life. Great kids, they discovered, have the following qualities: they are engaged, empathetic, curious, and good communicators; they have emotional range, self-awareness, discipline, creativity, logical thinking skills, and moral integrity. Luckily, these qualities are not hard-wired genetic attributes but are learned through experience, and there are many ways parents can help children develop them, such as throwing hurdles into imaginative play instead of directing a script of niceties; encouraging a wide range of emotions, even those considered uncomfortable; and valuing the extensive "why" conversation, which drives everyone nuts. The book is somewhat academic, offering a philosophical approach to emotional development rather than concrete parenting tips, but readers will be richly rewarded. Highly recommended for academic, consumer health, and public libraries.
—Julianne J. Smith

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738209791
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication date: 8/13/2007
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 818,490
Series: Merloyd Lawrence Book
Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., author of the widely used and praised books The Challenging Child and (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) Engaging Autism, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Preface   Bernard Levy     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
Introduction: Growing Great Kids     xvii
Engagement: Relating to Others     1
Empathy: The Ability to Care     19
Curiosity: An Inquiring Mind     45
Communication: The Transforming Power of Language     61
Emotional Range: Passion and Balance     87
Genuine Self-Esteem: The Importance of Self-Awareness     103
Internal Discipline: Perseverance and Self-Control     125
Creativity and Vision: A Rich Internal Life     147
Logical Thinking: Making Sense of the World     167
Moral Integrity: A Matter of the Heart     185
Bibliography     205
Photography Credits     206
Index     207
About the Author     217

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Anonymous

Posted March 19, 2008

MUST READ!

I highly recommend Great Kids to all parents and caregivers who want to encourage their child to build a happy, healthy, moral, and successful life! Any child can learn these traits, and this is not just a book for children with challenges, but for any child - infants on up. I have read MANY child development/parenting books, and this is one of the very best. Developing and encouraging traits like empathy and moral integrity - even in infants '!!' - will undoubtedly help many parents raise a wonderful child. A MUST READ!
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