Elegant Parenting: Strategies for the Twenty-First Century

The authors attempt to make a constructive contribution to a world where improvement in the quality of human interactions may be a deciding factor for our very survival as a species. This is NOT a book on child-care techniques. In these pages you will not learn how to diaper a baby or take a toddler's temperature. Neither is it a do-it-yourself child psychiatry text. It is a book on parenting, for ordinary parents meeting ordinary problems in raising their children. It is intended to teach easy and elegant ways of interacting with children in order to achieve parenting goals. It is full of recipes and specific instructions, and it presents general principles only when they can actually be put to practical use. But it is more than a set of recipes. If the spirit and method of approach used here are properly absorbed, you can learn from them new ways of finding elegant and easy solutions for yourself.