The Rewards of Parenting: Growing Along With Your Child

Rating:
Summary: Delightful, Refreshing and Useful
Review: Dr. Alfred Koumans' book is as delightful as it is useful. While current psychological thinking is replete with theories and documentation of the reciprocal influences generated between parents and their children, the literature has only dealt with the impact of parent on child. Dr. Koumans writes about the much-neglected potential of children to restimulate previously stymied adult development in their parents in rewarding ways.

With refreshingly direct style and the willingness to include some personal examples with his own children, he deftly accompanies the reader into those poignant, frustrating or magical moments which can actualize a deep mutual recognition, and in which the parent, with Dr. Koumans' insights, can opt for the most constructive, enriching response.

A pleasure to read, this book is wonderfully enlightening to parents and to growing children as well.

Rating:
Summary: Delightful, Refreshing and Useful
Review: Dr. Alfred Koumans' book is as delightful as it is useful. While current psychological thinking is replete with theories and documentation of the reciprocal influences generated between parents and their children, the literature has only dealt with the impact of parent on child. Dr. Koumans writes about the much-neglected potential of children to restimulate previously stymied adult development in their parents in rewarding ways.

With refreshingly direct style and the willingness to include some personal examples with his own children, he deftly accompanies the reader into those poignant, frustrating or magical moments which can actualize a deep mutual recognition, and in which the parent, with Dr. Koumans' insights, can opt for the most constructive, enriching response.

A pleasure to read, this book is wonderfully enlightening to parents and to growing children as well.