First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £3.70
Trade in First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddlers for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £3.70, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Plus, get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Product Description
This text approaches attachment and developmental issues arising when the child is in your care. It offers practical, sensitive guidance through the dark areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood. It reassures that no problem faced as a result of the child's early experiences is insignificant or undeserving of a solution. Neither is the reader patronized by assumptions that some matters should already be common knowledge. It sets out purposefully to encourage confidence and thereby to enable enjoyment of the young life in your care.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
First Sentence
This is a book about you and your adopted little one, or the baby or young child you hope to have. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
This is a book about you and your adopted little one, or the baby or young child you hope to have. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm afraid I have to quite disagree with the previous foster carer who suggested that this book is only useful for those children who have been sexually abused. This is a wonderful book, easy to read, hands-on and parent-friendly. It's intelligently written and backed up with careful research. I cannot recommend it more highly for any adoptive or foster parent. It's a sad fact that today, nearly all children adopted have been through the care system with complex and traumatic histories - they're rarely babies these days. Caroline really understands this and the shock it is to the many parents who are ill-prepared for the pain their child is in.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
We were also asked to read this as part of adoption assessment. There's no doubt that there's a lot of useful information, particularly for children who have suffered a particularly rough start in life and anything that helps them is to be supported. However the bit I didn't like was constantly suggesting an approach and then saying (in bold) BUT DON'T DO THIS IF.. I would have found it more helpful to have chapters split out for children who have been subject to different types of abuse or neglect before being adopted or fostered as at least you could read a whole section that might be more appropriate to your child.
Some of the suggestions I just found very odd - e.g putting honey on child's mouth and then licking it off yourself or letting your child streak in the rain? I understand what the author is trying to achieve but I found it a bit off-beat for me.
Some of the suggestions I just found very odd - e.g putting honey on child's mouth and then licking it off yourself or letting your child streak in the rain? I understand what the author is trying to achieve but I found it a bit off-beat for me.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book does have some good ideas but the author does not execute them at all well. So poorly in fact I even wondered if the book was ever edited. I understand why we were asked to read it as part of our assessment as compared to a lot of the workbooks that our out there it seems to offer a more practical way of parenting but the ideas are so all over the place I am not sure that it will ever be of any real use.
The author flits between simple and non simple language (who has ever called a baby a young human), exclamation marks are everywhere and just when you think she is actually going to give you a piece of advice you can use she tells you to go read another book that will explain it better.
I am not saying don't read this book as if you have to read it for your assessment of course you are going to read it, but just don't let this be the only book you read. We found our social worker a much better resource than this!!!
The author flits between simple and non simple language (who has ever called a baby a young human), exclamation marks are everywhere and just when you think she is actually going to give you a piece of advice you can use she tells you to go read another book that will explain it better.
I am not saying don't read this book as if you have to read it for your assessment of course you are going to read it, but just don't let this be the only book you read. We found our social worker a much better resource than this!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good book
A good book for adoptive parents with many helpful points to help deal with attachments issues and easy to read. Read more
Published 5 months ago by brownie
EXCELLENT ADOPTION GUIDE
After reading all the book I have learned various guide lines on how to protect in the best possible way the feelings of the adoptive child.
Published 19 months ago by FRANKIE
Some of the themes are just wrong
Overall I think this book is a useful resource, however, you quickly know from how thin the book is that it doesn't go nearly far enough. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Bubble
Very Helpful
I've found this book really useful as we prepare for our adoption journey. It's written in a very real way which makes you believe that there's practical experience behind it - not... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mrs Smith
great book
This book is really informative and very well written to cater for all levels of literacy.
Published on 28 Feb 2010 by L. Wright
Annoyingly written and for Simpletons
Unfortunately we were told to buy and read this book during our "assessment" period. It is the most annoying book to read; constantly changing between refering to the child as... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2008 by Boxa
Spot on
I agree with the 2nd review i 1st borrowed this book from the library as we are looking into adopting a toddler, and i have to say that this book is fantastic and i am now going to... Read more
Published on 28 Mar 2007 by N. Tarbuck
Useful to those adopting abused children
I am fostering a bereaved child, and whilst I found some of the advice helpful, I found the book concentrated upon children who had been sexually abused. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2002
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Families & Parents > Adoption
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Families & Parents > Raising Children
- Books > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Families & Parents > Special Needs
- Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Social Issues > Social Welfare & Services
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
