Development According to Parents: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Parents' Ideas

by Jacqueline J. Goodnow and W. Andrews Collins

To their everyday life with children, parents bring a number of ideas about development and about parenting. Some of these ideas are about their own children and about themselves as parents. Others are more general: ideas, for instance, about what babies are like, how children change with age, what kinds of affection and control they need, the responsibilities of mothers and fathers, or the degree of influence each parent has over the way a child...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863771610
• ISBN13: 9780863771613
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.0"