Pressured parents, stressed-out kids
Subtitle: dealing with competition while raising a successful child
By: by Wendy S. Grolnick, and Kathy Seal.
Contributors: Seal, Kathy.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781591025665
Subjects: Parenting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Parent and child -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parent panic: it takes you by surprise; title: Why now? "our kids are competing all the time"; title: It's an animal thing: when our hardwiring goes haywire; title: The big takeover: how our feelings pull us to push; title: Beyond the carrot and the stick: fanning the flames of your child's inner passion; title: Rx for intrinsic motivation: encouraging your child's autonomy; title: The how-to of autonomy; title: Stand by me: maximizing involvement; title: What do you expect? channeling anxiety into rules, guidelines and information; title: Calming down: "that all sounds very nice, but how can i use these techniques when i'm feeling so anxious?"; title: Endnotes.