Red Flags or Red Herrings?: Predicting Who Your Child Will Become
“The perfect antidote to the high anxiety that pervades parenting these days, Susan Engel's lovely book tells the wonderful truth that parents don't need to worry much, that children will grow up and become wonderful people if given a parent or two who loves them and the basic necessities. She urges parents to enjoy their children and bask in the warmth of their childhoods, rather than spend these glorious years in fretful states of apprehension and feckless fear. A superb and smart book.” —Edward Hallowell, M.D., The Hallowell Center, New York City, and author ofThe Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness"This is a liberating book for all parents who worry too much about how to direct their children’s development…Parenting has become uncomfortably competitive and many mothers and fathers turn themselves around in confused circles trying to identify what will guarantee their child’s success. This book will help parents learn that children should be our primary guide in providing the conditions that support them to become the best of who they are, rather than who we want them to be." —Roger A. Hart, Professor, PhD Programs of Environmental and Developmental Psychology, The Graduate Centre of the City University of New York."A technically thoughtful and beautifully written bookto help parents get a better sense of what their children are likely to become when they're grown — and why." —Jerome S. Bruner, PhD., NYU Professor of Psychology and author ofThe Process of Education"Refreshing, lively…should reduce the worries of the many parents who do not appreciate the extraordinary capacities for change present in all children, who have the opportunities to exploit new experiences that permit them to grow closer to their personal ideal." —Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., author ofThe Nature of the Child“In thiseye-opening book, Susan Engel offers us a provocative new look at how children attain successful lives —and, indeed, what success in youth development really means.She has a deep understanding of children's lives.” —William Damon, Professor at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and author ofThe Path to Purpose: How Young People find the Calling in Life“Susan Engel's book will ease your mind, and help you separate the things that are nothing to worry about…from the things that might really signal that something is wrong.An important and reassuring addition to any American parent's bookshelf.” —Robin Marantz Henig, author ofPandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution“Insightful…the author knows her stuff and is a wonderful storyteller.” —Publishers Weekly