Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
In 1987, Dr. Kyle Pruett redefined what it means to be a good parent with his pioneering book The Nurturing Father. Now he is back with the first book to show that the emphasis on the mother/child bond perpetuated by our most trusted child-care experts is only half the story. It's not that children simply like a father's attention; children need the specific care and nurturing only a father can give in order to grow and develop into healthy adults.
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Combining real-life examples with evidence from his landmark Yale Child Study Center research and his own child psychiatry practice, Pruett shows how differently fathers parent and why that difference is so important to a child's development. A father's involvement from infancy to adolescence gives a child greater physical dexterity, stronger curiosity, more emotional balance, and greater self-confidence than his or her peers without dads. Pruett shows, with authority and compassion, how to be sure that every child gets what only a father can provide. And with the practical, timely advice included in this book, Father-need will be as important for mothers as it is for fathers.
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