Constructive Parenting [Paperback]

Sally Goldberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0205322441 | ISBN-13: 978-0205322442 | Edition: 1st

Build a Strong Foundation in the first three years of your Child's Development!

• Important Principals and easy-to follow guidelines to help all parents and caregivers carry out the 15 "Pillars of Parenting".
• Learn from experts who provide a "hands-on" approach to parenting to help you in the critical early years of child development.
• Coverage of Self-esteem, emotional, cognitive, motor, social and language development. Activities to help you promote growth in the important development areas.

Written by a foremost parenting expert, Constructive Parenting helps turn important theory and research into essential, easy-to-follow, guidelines for every new parent and child care provider. The information helps you focus on the critical first three years of a child's life to build a strong foundation for the future. All the key areas of child development are covered including: self-esteem, cognitive, motor and social development. You'll also receive information on health issues, and the importance of play.

Sally Goldberg,Ph.D. is an early childhood specialist, professor, author, speaker, coach and consultant. Author of Teaching with Toys, Growing with Games, Parent Involvement Begins at Birth, and Baby and Toddler Learning Fun, she is the creator of the well-known "15 Pillars of Parenting" and "Interactive Parenting", and the much loved "Play and Learn System". Having appeared as a guest on many TV shows, she also produced and hosted "Teaching with Toys" and "Interactive Parenting" for WLRN in Miami, Florida. Currently she writes for Today's Family, a local South Florida magazine, and Children and Families, the national Head Start magazine. Dr. Goldberg is a popular keynote speaker at conferences and major organizations. Educated at Cornell University and the University of Miami, Dr. Goldberg is the mother of two grown daughters, and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

Review

In minutes time I saw one of my clients improve her child's behavior with Constructive Parenting tips. -- Michael LLoyd, April 16, 2003

Reading about self-esteem development in Constructive Parenting helped me help my twin daughters play together better. -- Corin Wiser, May, 2003

From the Back Cover

Build a Strong Foundation in the first three years of your Child's Development!

* Important Principals and easy-to follow guidelines to help all parents and caregivers carry out the 15 "Pillars of Parenting".
* Learn from experts who provide a "hands-on" approach to parenting to help you in the critical early years of child development.
* Coverage of Self-esteem, emotional, cognitive, motor, social and language development. Activities to help you promote growth in the important development areas.
Written by a foremost parenting expert, Constructive Parenting helps turn important theory and research into essential, easy-to-follow, guidelines for every new parent and child care provider. The information helps you focus on the critical first three years of a child's life to build a strong foundation for the future. All the key areas of child development are covered including: self-esteem, cognitive, motor and social development. You'll also receive information on health issues, and the importance of play.

Sally Goldberg,Ph.D. is an early childhood specialist, professor, author, speaker, coach and consultant. Author of Teaching with Toys, Growing with Games, Parent Involvement Begins at Birth, and Baby and Toddler Learning Fun, she is the creator of the well-known "15 Pillars of Parenting" and "Interactive Parenting", and the much loved "Play and Learn System". Having appeared as a guest on many TV shows, she also produced and hosted "Teaching with Toys" and "Interactive Parenting" for WLRN in Miami, Florida. Currently she writes for Today's Family, a local South Florida magazine, and Children and Families, the national Head Start magazine. Dr. Goldberg is a popular keynote speaker at conferences and major organizations. Educated at Cornell University and the University of Miami, Dr. Goldberg is the mother of two grown daughters, and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 1st edition (November 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205322441
• ISBN-13: 978-0205322442
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,555,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sally Goldberg, Ph.D. was the first parenting expert on "Parent to Parent," a FOX TV Channel 7 weekly news segment. Dr. Sally is a professor of education and parenting book author.

A prolific magazine writer, Dr. Sally has been published often in a multitude of magazines across the country. Her regular columns have appeared in Florida Wise, Florida Baby, Today's Parent, and Viewpointe. Her unique, logical, and down-to-earth advice has been quoted in numerous magazines and newspapers including Parent's Magazine and American Baby. Consumer Reports featured her concepts in two major editions of Best Baby Products.

Dr. Sally worked for many years as an instructor of early childhood education on the adjunct faculties of Nova Southeastern University, Barry University, and the University of Phoenix. Well-known for her tools and strategies for self esteem development, Sally was a national conference presenter and a frequent guest on TV and radio.

Dr. Sally was one of the nation's first parent coaches and founder of Dr. Sally Parenting, Inc. She has Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of Miami.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Guide for Parents!, November 20, 2004

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Kevin A. Decker "Relationship Author, Educato... (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Constructive Parenting (Paperback)

As a parent of a four and six year old I was very interested in what this book had to say. I found a lot of helpful, well researched information to help me raise my kids.

Constructive Parenting is divided into three sections.

Section One: Understanding the Basics

1. Building Your Child's Self-Esteem

2. Parent-Child Interaction

3. Areas of Child Development

This section lays a strong foundation for parents to be actively involved in your child's emotional, physical, and intellectual development.

Section Two: Play and Learn Activities

4. Facilitating Development through Activities

5. Activities for Cognitve Development

6. Activities for Motor Development

7. Activities for Social Development

8. Activities for Language Development

This section gives you specific activities that you can do with your child to help them grow. Activities in each chapter are broken down by age:

- Birth to Six Months,
- Six to Twelve Months,
- One to Two Years,
- Two to Three Years,
- Three to Four Years,
- and Four to Five Years.

Section Three: Childcare Parameters

9. All About Play

10. The Three Parts of Health

11. The Parent-Teacher Relationship

12. The New Brain Research

Section Three helps you create an environment to nurture your child's growth.

- How play is a child's work;
- Nutrition (diet), Exercise, and possibly the most important, Sleep;
- How parent and teacher can complement each other in creating a well educated child;
- What you as a parent can look to in the future from research in helping your child grow.

In the appendix of the book are parenting tips to cut out and use to remind you of the learning in the book. I, like probably a lot of people, am loathe to cut up a book. I hope in the future she provides a flash card deck of these tips.

I also would like to have seen Chapter Two, Parent-Child Interaction, fleshed out more. I really like the concept of pillars of parenting. Adding real Life examples would help a lot.

Maybe Sally could put out a workbook for the pillars with a card deck of tips.

All in all, I wish I'd had this book about six years ago. I'm always looking for help in parenting my children in ways that will help them grow up happy, healthy, and wise. Constructive Parenting is a very good tool for parents trying to figure out just how to raise a child.

If you're about to become a parent, have a child under five, or just know someone in that situation I recommend you buy a copy of Constructive Parenting.

Kevin Decker: Author, Speaker, Coach

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brenda Nixon, author of Parenting Power in the Early Years, November 20, 2002

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This review is from: Constructive Parenting (Paperback)

If you're teachable and want to learn how to be a more involved parent then this book is for you. It is packed with Dr. Goldberg's research and practical activities to do with your child.