Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers

by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Book Overview

From growing their children, parents grow themselves, learning the lessons their children teach. "Growing up", then, is as much a developmental process of parenthood as it is of childhood. While countless books have been written about the challenges of parenting, nearly all of them position the parent as instructor and support-giver, the child as learner and in need of direction. But the parent-child relationship is more complicated and reciprocal;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022618840X
• ISBN13: 9780226188409
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"