Parents Are People, Too: An Emotional Fitness Program for Parents

by Katherine Gordy Levine

Offers techniques for dealing with the guilt, anger, frustration, and self-doubt of parenthood, including visualization, personal mission statements, and strategies for dealing with specific negative feelings

Genres: Parenting

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

I am a maverick or a mutant take your pick. First a therapist, a Columbia University School of Social Work professor, and then a foster mother. For nearly fourteen years my husband and I provided short term care to an ever changing group of boys and girls, mostly teens, and all in trouble with the law. As 366 kids lived in our home, I am most likely the world's most experienced mother. My advice transcends the usual parent advice. I am a therapist who has been in the trenches. I know how easy it is to give advice and how hard to follow it.