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Parenting book
Jul. 13th, 2010 08:40 amI have only just begun it but I have to recommend Jo Jackson-King’s *Raising the Best Possible Child* (2010).
I would have recommended it anyway as the starving author is a friend of mine, but having begun it I am blown away. It is a parenting book for parents who want to know what lies behind the advice. Why are we told to this and encouraged to that – what does the research say. Jo’s emphasis is on gentle, caring attachment. Some parenting books (the sort I do *not* like) encourage you to think of yourself as a lion tamer and your child as a wild animal always locked in battle with you and wilfully testing your limits; Jo sees parents as the bigger, wiser, calmer half of a loving dyad.
I would have recommended it anyway as the starving author is a friend of mine, but having begun it I am blown away. It is a parenting book for parents who want to know what lies behind the advice. Why are we told to this and encouraged to that – what does the research say. Jo’s emphasis is on gentle, caring attachment. Some parenting books (the sort I do *not* like) encourage you to think of yourself as a lion tamer and your child as a wild animal always locked in battle with you and wilfully testing your limits; Jo sees parents as the bigger, wiser, calmer half of a loving dyad.
