Publisher's Synopsis
Like "Secrets of Happy Children", this book presents several groundbreaking concepts. It is also affirming and challenging - encouraging parents to make up there own minds and to feel comfortable with their inner good sense over the constraints of social convention.;The effects of early child care on both parents and child are looked at, as well as the concept of tough love or how to be firm in a way that will discipline the behaviour of the child while building the relationship between parent and child.;Also discussed is the special needs of "boys liberation", or how boys need to be given greater confidence and help in being themselves - without violence - to cope with life at the turn of the century. A similar chapter on the problems faced by young girls is also presented.