Keeping Your Kids Out Front Without Kicking Them From Behind
How to Nurture High-Achieving Athletes, Scholars, and Performing Artists
Ian Tofler | Theresa Foy DiGeronimo
Family & Relationships / Parenting / General
Keeping Your Kids Out Front Without Kicking Them From Behind is acommon sense guide for moms and dads of talented and giftedchildren. In this practical book, authors Dr. Ian Tofler andTheresa Geronimo--experts in the field of parenting--present theirSeven-Step Program for Encouraging and Protecting High-AchievingChildren. This innovative program offers guidance for establishinghealthy boundaries between parents' ambitions and the needs oftheir talented children and clear-cut instructions for helpingchildren balance achievement with happiness.
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IAN TOFLER, M.B., B.S., is a Harvard-trained child and adolescent psychiatrist in practice in Los Angeles. He is the inaugural chair of the Sport Psychiatry Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. THERESA FOY DIGERONIMO, M.Ed., is coauthor of How to Talk to Your Children About Really Important Things and How to Talk to Teens About Really Important Things (Jossey-Bass, 1994, 1999).
| Publication Date: |
27 September 2000 |
| Publisher: |
Wiley |
| Imprint: |
Jossey-Bass |
| ISBN-13: |
9780787952235 |
| Format: |
Paperback / softback |
| Page Count: |
256 |
| Weight (oz): |
16.16 |