This book Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life has been written by Stanley Greenspan as a guide for parents who are looking for ways to raise their kids to become confident, successful and sensitive and to develop social skills and morals as they grow into adults. Greenspan acknowledges that children are not born with these qualities and that they are taught often by the parents or caregivers. This book covers the ten most important traits that the author believes children need as they mature from a young child into an adult.
Greenspan, who has over thirty years of practical experience dealing with children and also children with special needs and has penned this book mainly as a guide for parents to learn skills associated with raising children in relation to the 10 essential qualities. Each of the 10 qualities, engagement, empathy, curiosity, communication, emotional range, self awareness, internal discipline, creativity and vision, logical thinking and moral integrity, is explained in detail in the book and Greenspan also explains strategies and methods for engaging children such as using the floor method which encourages parents to get down on the floor level with the child which encourages the child to take the lead.
To make this book interesting and practical to use Greenspan has also included detailed discussion and information of each of the 10 qualities as well as examples that are relevant for children at differing ages. Many people are wary of books that claim to have all the answers in ’10 easy steps’ but this book is presented well with many questions answered through the conversational style used throughout the book.
Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life is recommended by many parents and professionals especially for people who are looking for a book that is easy to read and contains information that is relevant and explained well. This book is recommended for any parent who is striving to develop their child emotionally and intellectually. Many people who have purchased and read this book have also commented on the ease at which the 10 qualities can be introduced to the child and that the book offers clear direction for parents and children in concise easy to read chapters.
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