The Good Enough Parent

Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges.It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children’s minds operate and what they need from those who look after them so they can develop into the best version of themselves.

The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of lessons, including ideas on how to say 'no' to a child one adores, how to look beneath the surface of 'bad' behaviour to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, how to encourage open self expression, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence.

Importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not required – and could indeed be unhelpful, because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything. Written in a tone that is encouraging, wry and soaked in years of experience, The Good Enough Parent is an intelligent guide to raising a child who will one day look back on their childhood with just the right mixture of gratitude, humour and love.

This concise book is indispensable reading for fans of Philippa Perry 's The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, and Alain de Botton's The School of Life: An Emotional Education

“Being yourself is more than enough. […] You don’t need to be a paragon of virtue.”
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“Messing up is not the problem. The problem is the denial of messing up."
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- Print Length: 224 pages

- Language: English

- Author: Alain De Botton

- Publisher: The School of Life Press

- ISBN: 9781912891542