Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
ISBN:
9780553750683 (0553750682)
Publish date: July 5th 2000
Publisher: Random House Audio
Edition language: English
I read this book in one evening and found it valuable and empowering. I got to skip over all the chapters that had to do with school and daycares, since we're learning at home, but the rest was certainly applicable. While many of the stories he uses as examples were heartbreaking (I totally could no...
Every time I put this book down because I get to anxious reading about all the bad scenarios a child can get into, I pick up another piece of valuable information.
Real risk assessment and real skills for protecting children. I'm not a big fan of self-help in general, and I'm really extremely scornful of the prtect-yourself advice usually given to women, which amounts to: don't go anywhere or do anything and if you get raped it's all your fault. There's no ...
I first saw Gavin de Becker on Oprah right around the time my son was born. I bought this book and never regretted it. He explains a lot of facts about how children and teenagers can be at risk and taken advantage of. The book describes in detail the most common mistakes parents make that put the...
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