Raising a Self-Reliant Child
A Back-to-Basics Parenting Plan from Birth to Age 6
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
Publisher Description
With this practical guide, parents can end daily power struggles with their preschoolers, toddlers, and infants and create more time for the family to spend on things that matter by encouraging early childhood independence skills.
We’ve all heard the news about helicopter parents and boomerang children—but how can parents safeguard against these trends when our children’s lives are increasingly scheduled and competitive? Pediatrician Dr. Alanna Levine offers a commonsense parenting approach that avoids divisive strategies and helps parents find a balanced ground between overindulgence and strict control.
Raising a Self-Reliant Child focuses on teachable moments where parents can instill independence, such as sleep time, toilet training, mealtime, and playtime. With Dr. Levine’s practical strategies and techniques, young children learn to take responsibility for their daily routines: babies learn to sleep through the night, toddlers learn to nap without their parents stretched out alongside, and school-age children learn to dress themselves and make breakfast with little parental intervention.
Overprotection and micromanagement keep young children from the self-development that comes naturally from learning and doing on one’s own. And children who don’t learn independence skills at an appropriate age grow into adults who expect others to fix challenges and conflicts for them. Dr. Levine helps you break the cycle of daily power struggles so that you and your family will have more time to focus on the things that really matter.
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Levine, an AAP spokesperson and pediatrician affiliated with Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, focuses on how to set the groundwork for self-reliance and independence in the first six years of life. Pointing out the trend in helicopter parenting, Levine argues in favor of a more balanced approach, rejecting more extreme "fads" such as "free-range," "Tiger Mother," and "attachment" parenting. Addressing an array of topics, including sleeping, eating, pacifiers, potty training, and chores, Levine helps parents empower children to problem-solve, make good decisions, and learn from their mistakes. Parents, she maintains, are often too swift to come to the rescue, whether the child is crying in his crib, stuck at the top of a slide, or having trouble articulating a thought. Levine weaves in useful anecdotes from her own experiences as the mother of two (for example, her daughter learns to "make breakfast" from cereal and milk at age three). Her advice for teaching babies to sleep may be more difficult for some readers to embrace: crying "to extinction," for instance, is the rather unfortunate description used for Marc Weissbluth's sleep-training method, which begins at about six weeks. (Levine also gives a thumbs-up to the popular and less extreme Ferber method.) Her practical text will help parents overcome their hovering tendencies and help kids learn to confidently stand on their own two feet.
