ELEGANT PARENTING. HOW TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME
About this book
This book is an attempt to make a constructive contribution to a world whereimprovement in the quality of human interactions may be a deciding factor for our very survival as a species. As Watzlawick and colleagues have so clearly ". . .the world of human behavior clearly stands out today as that area in whichour understanding and skills most need revision."10This is not a book on child care techniques. In these pages you will not learn how to diaper a baby or take a toddler's temperature. Neither is it a do-it-yourself child psychiatry text. It is a book on parenting, for ordinary parents meeting ordinary problems in raising their children. It is intended to teach easy and elegant ways of interacting with children in order to achieve parenting goals. It is full of recipes and specific instructions and it presents general principles only when they canactually be put to practical use.But the book is more than a set of recipes. If the spirit and method of approachused here are properly absorbed, you can learn from them new ways of findingelegant and easy solutions for yourself. Then you will be on your way to enjoyingthe mastery of Parenting As A Performing Art.