Where can I find an assistant? How to prioritize? How to avoid too close connection with the child and not to spoil him? French psychologist Madeleine Denis gives advice that can be useful not only to single mothers, but also to all parents who (in vain) are trying to combine raising a child, work, self-realization, personal life.
In fact, this book is also addressed to dads who raise children without mothers. And even parents raising children in complete families. Indeed, those wives-husbands whose partners disappear on long business trips or work so much that they see the child only on holidays and rare weekends also face those difficult situations that the French psychologist Madeleine Denis talks about. Those adults who are “left on the farm” face the same problems as single mothers: where to find an assistant? Will you be able to work at home? How to cope with whims or avoid too close connection with the child? Moreover, it is important not only to resolve everyday issues, but also to learn how to live in harmony with children and with yourself. The author’s advice and examples are so useful and accurate that you want to immediately check them in practice. For example, to create a «friendly network of grandparents on the hook.» Or “set aside a separate phone number for business calls and turn it off when you are busy with a child.” Or “meet each of the children separately, and not at home, but where everyone likes it” — in order to calmly listen to them and talk. The quality of relationships within the family is Denis’ absolute priority, and this is perhaps the main value of the book.
Clever, 208 p.