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| Title: | Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids
: Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child |
| Author: | Wendy S Grolnick Ph.D. & Kathy Seal |
| ISBN: | 1591025664 : 9781591025665 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 290 |
| Weight: | .398 Kg. |
| Published: | Prometheus Books - January 2008 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Advice on parenting |
To help panicky parents deal with the disturbing emotions stirred up by our competitive society, and to give them scientific knowledge of their children's growing years, this book offers an illuminating and accessible guide to channelling competitive anxiety into positive parenting. The authors encourage parents to avoid pushing and pressurising their offspring, instead turning fear into calm guidance. Reassuring and empathic, the book shows parents how to avoid burn-out that afflicts so many in our high octane society helping them to raise children who thrive and excel.
Parent Panic: It Takes You by Surprise; Why Now? "Our Kids Are Competing All the Time"; It's an Animal Thing, When Our Hardwiring Goes Haywire; The Big Take-over: How Our Feelings Pull Us to Push; Beyond the Carrot and the Stick: Fanning the Flames of Your Child's Inner Passion; Rx for Intrinsic Motivation: Encouraging Your Child's Autonomy; The How-to of Autonomy; Stand by Me: Maximising Your Involvement; "What Do You Expect?" Channelling Anxiety into Rules, Guidelines, and Information; Calming Down: "That All Sounds Very Nice, But How Can I Use These Techniques When I'm Feeling So Anxious"; Index.
