More Secrets of Happy Children

Steve Biddulph

Like "Secrets of Happy Children", this book presents several groundbreaking concepts. It is also affirming and challenging - encouraging parents to make up there own minds and to feel comfortable with their inner good sense over the constraints of social convention. The effects of early child care on both parents and child are looked at, as well as the concept of tough love or how to be firm in a way that will discipline the behaviour of the child while building the relationship between parent and child. Also discussed is the special needs of "boys liberation", or how boys need to be given greater confidence and help in being themselves - without violence - to cope with life at the turn of the century. A similar chapter on the problems faced by young girls is also presented.