Customer Reviews

The Confident Child: Raising Children to Believe in Themselves

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I finally found a parenting book that doesn't preach to me, or give 'quick-fix' answers. Instead, "The Confident Child...", helps me understand myself, and why I parent the way I do. It helps me to understand my daughter's emotions better which in turn helps me help her.

I especially like the "How to be an Imperfect Parent Without Ruining Your Childs Life" chapter. Wonderful suggestions, that are working in the real world.

With the assistance of this book Terri Apter has helped me pinpoint why my daughter's self-esteem issues arise. She's not the angry perfectionist I thought she was. Now I know where to start!

Excellent pointers on how to boost your childs self confidence and performance as a result.

This book was first used in my Mother-Child Matrix graduate course in the Child Psych program of my school, and I soaked it up like a sponge. You can't help reliving your own childhood through these books that describe the experiences you go through with your parents as good parenting and not-so-good parenting. So, as a result, I gave this book as a present to one of them ;) I discussed it with one of them, and they said that they were really interested in the philosophy of this book, and now they've read it multiple times over. Even though I'm grown, I now have a 1yr old sibling who this could greatly benefit, and if taken as a guide, it really can.

I must qualify this commentary - I have not read this book. I was, however, interested in purchasing it. Unfortunately, I've seen too many books that use too many pages to describe the issue they are trying to address, and not enough pages describing techniques and methods to help where the help is desired. I don't need to know that I want to develop confidence in my child, I already know that! So it is unfortunate that the chosen excerpt only talks about the desire every parent has to take the right steps to develop confidence in their child, and doesn't give any examples of the techniques the book recommends. In other words, the excerpt lacks the meat needed to judge whether the book has merit.