How to Build Self-Esteem in Your Child - Hide and Seek - Expanded and Updated Edition

by Dr. James Dobson

Paperback, 1979

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Available

Call number

305

Collection

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Publication

Fleming H. Revell Company (1979), Edition: Revised Edition, 188 pages

Description

Exposes society's false value system and presents twelve strategies through which parents and teachers can cultivate self-esteem in every child, while also teaching them to be kind.

User reviews

LibraryThing member BethanyBible

This book is intended to help parents and teachers raise self-confident, healthy children. By applying the strategies outlined here, youngsters need not hide in shame but can gain the courage to seek the best from their world. Dr. Dobson exposes the false value system of our society and presented

ten comprehensive strategies through which parents and teachers can cultivate self-esteem in every child.

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LibraryThing member jennyrosewriter

I thought The Five Love Languages for Kids by Gary Chapman was good. I thought How to Really Love Your Child by Dr. Campbell was great. This book is even better.

Dr. Dobson begins by explaining how self-esteem can be eroded. Next he illustrates strategies for parents to help their child overcome

low self-esteem. There are also "Question and Answer" sprinkled throughout the book which help emphasize the points he is making. Then there is a section on coping with self-esteem trouble. He also includes a section on preparing for adolescents, but I think I'll come back to that section another time--maybe next year.

My favorite part is where Dobson covers the strategy of compensation. This strategy isn't really addressed in either of the "Love" books I have reviewed because it is not a way to show love, but rather a way to teach a child to rise above.

Even though this book came out in the early 70's, the information is still so relevant today that it is almost frightening. This should be required reading of anyone thinking about having kids AND RE-reading at each stage of a child's development.

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LibraryThing member OCMCCP

Dr. Dobson does an excellent job of getting across the basics of child psychology and how they relate to self-esteem, without either talking over the readers' heads or talking down to them. He describes some of the ways that parents can intentionally weaken their children's self-esteem and many

ways to prevent or remedy that situation, ultimately giving the child a self-image that is based on inherent worth rather than abilities, attractiveness, possessions or performance. This book is highly recommended to anyone who is disappointed in the prevailing current views on how to build a child's self-esteem, and wants to try a better way--God's way.

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