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The Educated Parent Recent Trends in Raising Children
Joseph D. Sclafani
Book Code: C8224
ISBN: 0-275-98224-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98224-9
256 pages, figure
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2004
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Sclafani deals comprehensively with fundamental parenting issues such as development, family systems, fatherhood, parental modeling, discipline, divorce, education, day care, and stress. Retaining both content and clarity, he explains child psychology in a manner accessible to lay readers. Best of all, Sclafani shows parents how to integrate research findings with daily parenting practice. This book supplements, and may well supplant, the works of T. Berry Brazelton and Penelope Leach. Highly recommended.
    —Library Journal     August 2004
  • Sclafani weaves theory and data in this thoughtful book. Several strong chapters summarize the knowledge and specific recommendations related to common issues faced by families; for example, day care, divorce, and fatherhood. Other chapters cover topics unique to general resources on parenting: adoption, children with serious illnesses, and the loss of a treasured pet. This is not a book to be read cover to cover; rather readers should take time after each topic of discussion to process information and viewpoints presented....Crossing several disciplines--psychology, education, sociology--this is a solid resource for a broad audience. Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; faculty; professionals; general readers.
    —Choice     February 2005
  • Unlike most parenting books which present at best a mix of contradictory messages and conflicting advice, Sclafani offers a refreshing view with practical advice for the concerned, engaged adult concerned with parenting their child(ren) from infancy to adolescence. Grounded in an appropriate research literature of the educational and social sciences, Sclafani's 10 chapters negotiate the practical parenting territory by addressing many of the shortcomings of earlier volumes dealing with this topic (often successfully so)....[i]f I were asked right now to recommend only a single, comprehensive volume as a reference for parents setting out to equip and educate themselves with regards their planning for the 'better parenting' of their child(ren), this would be that book.
    —Metapsychology     February 5, 2006
Description: With all of the conflicting advice published on childrearing, it is difficult for parents to determine which sources of child development literature are the best to follow. Sclafani helps readers to access the appropriate research-based findings. He highlights the different approaches to childrearing and provides practical advice about which approaches work best and why. His expertise, drawn from 20 years of teaching and practicing child psychology and family therapy, make him amply qualified to tackle this important subject. This volume provides parents with understandable, straightforward information to help them be more effective and positive in their interactions with their children. Sclafani covers topics that are relevant to all effective parenting. He starts by acknowledging that the process of parenting is a unique set of behaviors based upon values rooted in ethnicity, culture, and family of origin. Next, attachment, temperament, are parenting style are explained in detail, along with the subjects of family structure and discipline. An entire chapter is devoted to exploring the role of parents in their child's education process. Divorce and re-marriage effects on children and ways for parents to minimize harmful long-term effects are reviewed. The often conflicting research on day care placement and its effects are appraised and considered. Also included is information on managing stress levels within families. Finally, there is a chapter on special topics issues including adoption and chronic illness in children.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Basics
  • Foundations of Child Outcome: The Developmental Triad (Part One)
  • The Developmental Triad (Part Two): Parenting Styles and Triad Interactions
  • Family Structure and Discipline
  • Parents as Teachers: Parenting Influences on Education
  • Parenting and Co-parenting Issues Related to Divorce
  • Day Care
  • Stress and Anxiety in Children
  • Fatherhood
  • Special Parent-Child Issues
LC Card Number: 200402507
LCC Class: HQ755
Dewey Class: 649
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