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Adele Faber, 96, Who Helped Change How Parents Talk to Children, Dies
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Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel and counterproductive perfectionism. To help them reduce this, Winnicott developed a charming phrase: ‘the good enough parent’. No child, he insisted, needs an ideal parent. They just need an OK, pre
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 (The How To Talk Series)
Julie King • 1 highlight
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Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Elaine Mazlish • 3 highlights
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Growing up – and the lesson of the ‘good-enough’ parent – is in part a process of learning that our own desires are not the centre of anyone else’s world. We can be needy and manipulative, bullying or seducing others into pandering to us, but we should expect to be resented for it. Where our behaviour is positive and less self-centred, though, some
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
