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A Good Enough Parent : A Book on Child-Rearing

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This is a sophisticated read - but well worth it! I am a child therapist and child development specialist and believe this book to be the bible of healthy child-rearing. Bettelheim is brilliant, caring and compassionate. Take time to read this prize, maybe 6 months or so. Read it slowly so that you can pick up all the messages and insights that he offers. Other great reads are Rudolf Driekers, "Children the Challenge." Try reading, Adele Faber's "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen" or Mary Kurcinka's "Kids, Parents and Power Sruggles."


Kimberley Clayton Blaine, MA, MFT
Licensed Child Therapist
founder, www.TheGoToMom.TV
Author: Mommy Confidence: 8 Easy Steps to Reclaiming Balance, Motivation, and Your Inner Diva

Marvelous book - have referred back to it many times for encouragement and reinforcement of my own parenting "beliefs". When I have grandkids, this will be my first gift to the prospective parents

It is amazing to me that the psychological community is still putting Bruno Bettelheim out there as some kind of authority. This is the same man who made up a theory of autism -- that it was caused by "refrigerator moms" -- that caused intense pain for a generation of mothers trying to help their autistic children. (His theory was based on his opinion, not scientific research.) This is also the same supposed doctor who started a sham school for autistic kids that was later shut down by the University of Chicago. Bettelheim went on to write more interesting theories -- including one that blamed the Jews for not standing up for themselves and thereby suffering the Holocaust.

Bettelheim never received a degree in psychology, as he purported when he emigrated from Europe during WW2. He managed to get himself on TV, though (our first Dr. Phil) and he could write convincingly.

Please, before you read this book, consider the source!