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Seeing Through Children's Eyes |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Peter Barglow |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 3,268 Words, 19,508 Characters |
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A GOOD ENOUGH PARENT
A Book on Child-rearing
Bruno Bettelheim
New York: Knopf, 1987
416 pp., $18.95
What should I do when my child has a temper tantrum? Breaks a vase? Refuses to go to school? Hits his sister? Wants to play with guns? Lies? Steals? Although Bruno Bettelheim says he is not in the business of giving advice--in fact, mistrusts child-rearing advice on principle--he succeeds admirably in answering such questions, while at the same time fulfilling his promise to give readers something that will obviate the need for advice: namely an approach to child rearing, a way of handling these and the "millions of [other] problems" parents are likely to encounter every day in raising their children.
Bruno Bettelheim's knowledge of children and what they require ...
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...o had earlier hurt my feelings. So I may take him after all, assured by Bettelheim that the experience is age-appropriate and won't turn him into Rambo. And when I yelled at him later to do his homework, my wife said, "Now, dear, is that how Bettelheim would handle this?" This remark, which I'll hear for years, I'm sure, will fortunately be echoed in many American households in years to come.
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