LOOK FOR THE COMPANION VOLUME:
DR. SPOCK’S THE SCHOOL YEARS
The Emotional and Social Development of Children
Contents
- Teaching Values to Children
- Teaching Children to Give and Share • Duties and Responsibilities • Do Kids Have Too Much? • Rising Stresses and Weakening Spirituality • Children and Religion • Causes for Children • Violence in the News, Movies, and on TV
- Families
- The Changing Family • Early or Late Childbearing • The Second Child • Loving One Child Less • Preparing Children for a Good Marriage • Can One Parent Be as Good as Two? • The Pains of a Stepparent • Are Grandparents Important? • The Interfering Grandmother • Vacation Without the Children • Trying to Keep the Holidays Relaxed
- Contemporary Culture
- Changes in the Care of Children and Old People • Can You Raise Children to Make Their Own Decisions? • Parental Guilt from Working Outside the Home • Children Speak Out About Scheduling • Calling Parents by First Names • Teenage Idols, Punk Style, and the Early Stages of Sexual Development • How Open Can You Be About Sex?
- Discipline: Teaching Children Expectations for Behavior
- Hesitancy in Parents • Consistency in Discipline • The Father’s Role in Discipline • Lying
- The Social Development of Children
- Play: The “Work” of Early Childhood • Sibling Rivalry • How to Help a Child Who Isn’t Popular • Peer Pressure in Adolescence • Compare and Despair • The Neighbors’ Kids
- Education
- What Is Education? • Incidental Learning • Competitiveness • How Can You Judge Your Child’s Teacher? • Lessons, Lessons