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Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph. D. and Mark S. Lowenthal, PsyD
Jossey-Bass (2011)
ISBN 9780470640050
Reviewed by Kam Aures for Rebecca’s Reads (06/11)

In the Introduction to “Smart Parenting for Smart Kids,” Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph. D. and Mark S. Lowenthal, PsyD tell us that “there’s a wrong way and a right way to use this book.  The wrong way is to view it as over two hundred pages of stuff you need to ‘fix’ or ‘improve’ about your child or a long list of even more things you ought to be doing, on top of everything else you’re doing, to be a good parent.  The right way to use this book is as a resource to support your current efforts to raise a happy, healthy, productive, and kind child.”  (p. 8)

When I was reading this book I was amazed at how much I saw my older son in it.  Right away in the opening of Chapter 1, which deals with perfectionism, I saw listings of particular traits which he possesses.  From here on out I knew that this was going to be a book that was going to be applicable to my family and one that I knew I was going to learn a lot from.  My expectations were definitely met as I continued to read. 

One of the recommendations in the chapter on perfectionism is to not check over your child’s homework.  I am a parent who does check over my child’s homework and when I first read this I thought that this was something that I would never be able to stop doing.  As I read more though I understood the authors’ points and see how this could actually, in some ways, harm my child.  In the fall, I am going to make an effort to let my son do more on his own and learn that mistakes here and there are not the end of the world.

I highly recommend “Smart Parenting for Smart Kids” to any parent of a “bright” child.  I think that this book will greatly help you understand your child and, as the back cover states, to “make the most of their abilities and become capable, confident, and caring people.” 

 

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