Author Description

"Practical" is the best word to describe Dr. Lawrence Kutner's insights and advice on raising children. For years, Dr. Kutner's newspaper and magazine columns have been posted on refrigerator doors and handed out at pediatricians' offices across the United States and Canada. His nationally syndicated New York Times "Parent & Child" column, which he wrote from 1987 to 1994, was carried by several hundred newspapers. His column on child behavior in Parents magazine is one of the magazine's most popular features. In this, the second book in the Parent & Child series, Dr. Kutner blends expertise, personal experience, and humor as he takes a look at what it's like to raise toddlers and preschoolers in today's families. He uses his skills as both a highly respected psychologist and an award-winning journalist to help parents get inside their children's minds and see the world as they do. This book is filled with powerful and effective techniques for solving some of the most frustrating problems faced by the parents of young children. Throughout this book, Dr. Kutner draws from his own experience as a psychologist and a parent, and blends that with some of the latest research on child development. The result is a useful, funny and insightful look at why young children behave the way they do.