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Why does it take a parent to raise a child? Because it takes someone who loves a child enough to be in charge. With years of experience as a parent and a pediatrician, Dr. Griffin gives parents a game plan of nine ins… More >>
It Takes a Parent to Raise a Child: 9 Principles for Families to Love and Live By
This book is full of good ideas, even for parents who think they know how to handle children. What I really like about this book is that it emphasizes morals and character and how to keep our children listening to us so they will stick with the morals and character we teach them.
Even though the reasons should sometimes be obvious to us adults, this book tells why children respond in the ways they do. It’s an eye opener from a doctor who speaks from experience dealing with his own children and his patients.
Rating: 4 / 5
Dr. Griffin has hit the nail on the head with this book. His practical, realistic advice gives hope that the family can be a happy, loving group of people. That the home can be a refuge from the world, not a place of contention and anger. That parents and children can develop lasting and loving relationships. Thank you for your wonderful book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is full of good ideas, even for parents who think they know how to handle children. What I really like about this book is that it emphasizes morals and character and how to keep our children listening to us so they will stick with the morals and character we teach them.
Even though the reasons should sometimes be obvious to us adults, this book tells why children respond in the ways they do. It’s an eye opener from a doctor who speaks from experience dealing with his own children and his patients.
Rating: 4 / 5
Want to get the gist of this book without wasting time reading it? Check out the table of chapters. Because that’s about as in-depth a discussion of the ideas to be had in the pages that follow.
The ideas about how to make life better for you & your kids aren’t bad ones; they’re sort of no-brainers (except the author has serious issues against watching TV, regardless of how, or if, the themes and issues presented are discussed or explained by parents to their children). What is striking about the way they’re presented. It doesn’t take long before you realize that each paragraph consists of one idea presented, reworded, and reworded again. The final sentence in each chapter is also the title of the chapter.
The author also doesn’t seem to have in mind any but the preschool set, as if raising children is the same at every age or new issues don’t rise when kids are in high school.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is one of those books that I have highlighted all over the place and one of those that I will refer to time and time again. Thank you, Dr. Griffin for a very helpful book.
Rating: 5 / 5