Description: This perceptive and practical book shows parents how to help their children acquire self-esteem building skills and offers a plan for raising confident children. Through "emotional coaching", Terri Apter shows parents how to raise a child to solve problems, to be socially active and understand others, to express feelings appropriately, and to manage emotions.
Brief description: Terri Apter is a writer, psychologist, and retired Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her ten books include The Sister Knot, Difficult Mothers, and What Do You Want from Me? She lives in Cambridge, England.
Review Quotes: Terri Apter convinces the reader that she is on our side. . . . Her wisdom is tempered by warmth and a rueful acknowledgment that she hasn't always got it right herself, which is totally disarming.--Mary Hoffman, author of Amazing Grace