Description: The Caring Child provides the most current account of our understanding of the motivations behind prosocial behaviors and how these motives develop and are elicited. Eisenberg broadens our concept of the moral potential of children and shifts the focus from censoring antisocial behaviors to the active promotion of kindness and caring in children.
Review Quotes: This brief but information-packed book, by an important and prolific contributor to the study of helpful and generous behavior in children, provides a useful review of the existing research on the caring child.--Ervin Staub "Contemporary Psychology"