The Good Enough Parent

A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient well-balanced child

Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life's great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children's minds operate and what they need from those who look after them so they can develop into the best version of themselves.The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of lessons, including ideas on how to say 'no' to a child one adores, how to look beneath the surface of 'bad' behaviour to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, how to encourage open self expression, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence.Importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not required - and could indeed be unhelpful, because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything. Written in a tone that is encouraging, wry and soaked in years of experience, The Good Enough Parent is an intelligent guide to raising a child who will one day look back on their childhood with just the right mixture of gratitude, humour and love.

Auteur

The School of Life is a global organization devoted to helping people lead more fulfilled lives. We're a collective of psychologists, philosophers and writers working together to create resources to help people understand themselves and find fulfillment in their relationships, careers, social lives and leisure hours. Our psychological faculty is made up of accredited and experienced therapists specializing in child psychology and family dynamics, and most are parents themselves.

The School of Life Press brings together our thinking and ideas together under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton. You can find more of our work online, in stores and in welcoming spaces around the world.