Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core PersonalityFrom Michael Gurian, the best-selling author of The Minds of Boys and The Wonder of Girls, comes the next-step book that shows how any parent can tune into a child’s unique core personality, hard wiring, temperament, and genetic predisposition in order to help that child flourish and thrive. Based on the most recent brain research, Nurture the Nature features the Ten Tips for Nurturing the Nature of Your Baby, self-tests, checklists, and many other tools for you to help your kids get exactly the kind of support they need, from infants to adolescents. While offering positive ideas for nurturing your child, Gurian also shows how to avoid the stress, pressures, and excessive competition of what he identifies as social trends parenting. Most parents know instinctively that their child is unique and has special potential, weaknesses, and strengths. No child is a blank slate. Gurian calls on parents to turn away from one-size-fits-all approaches and instead support the individual core nature of a child with effective and customized loving care. |
Contents
Your Childs Nature | 5 |
Essential Parenting | 12 |
ESCAPING THE SOCIAL TRENDS PARENTING SYSTEM | 21 |
UNDERSTANDINGING THE CORE NATURE OF YOUR CHILD | 43 |
contents | 58 |
nurturing the nature of your infant | 85 |
nurturing the nature of your two | 116 |
nurturing the nature of your four | 138 |
part three | 201 |
nurturing the nature of your fifteen | 235 |
contents | 247 |
nurturing the nature of your adolescent | 271 |
epilogue | 299 |
More Help with Food Shelter and Clothing | 307 |
bibliography | 337 |
about the author | 343 |
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Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core ... Michael Gurian No preview available - 2007 |
Nurture the Nature: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Unique Core ... Michael Gurian No preview available - 2007 |