How Men and Women Parent Differently — Why It Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage
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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – All parents want to raise happy and healthy children. And all parents have opinions about the best way to do so. But what happens when two parents have opposing views on how to raise their kids?
With fathers playing an increasingly active role in child-rearing, the joys and responsibilities of raising kids have evolved to include both parents. This can place strain on a marriage, with negotiations taking place not only between parent and child but between parent and parent as well. How does a couple with contrasting parenting styles maintain a healthy marriage? And should all parenting duties be split 50/50 as recent books and articles have suggested?
Through years of experience as practicing clinicians and researchers, Dr. Kyle Pruett and Dr. Marsha Kline Pruett have developed a program of co-parenting that explains not only how to maintain an intact marriage but how to strengthen it as well. In Partnership Parenting: How Men and Women Parent Differently—Why it Helps Your Kids and Can Strengthen Your Marriage, they show that by forming a parenting team, parents can put their differences to constructive uses, bringing diversity and dynamism to the family and fostering the growth and development of their children. Rather than serving as sources of conflict, inevitable contradictions in parenting can be viewed as opportunities for learning for both parents and children.
Partnership Parenting gives parents the information they need to strengthen family life at all levels, addressing the best approaches to such areas as meals, sleep, discipline, safety, and education—all in the context of mutual discussions and shared contributions. It also makes it clear that, rather than splitting parenting responsibilities down the middle or trading them off, each parent should do what he or she does best. Above all, it shows that a strong relationship between parents is an invaluable factor in raising great kids.
Kyle Pruett, MD, is the author of Fatherneed: Why Father Care Is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child, Me Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self, and The Nurturing Father: Journey Toward the Complete Man. He is a Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. Marsha Kline Pruett, PhD, MSL, is the author of Your Divorce Advisor and Overnights and Young Children. She is a practicing clinical psychologist and the Maconda Brown O’Connor Professor at the Smith School for Social Work. Dr. Pruett and Dr. Kline Pruett have been married for twelve years and live in Northampton, Massachusetts.
September 1, 2009 Paperback Original $15.95 220 Pages Parenting ISBN: 978-0-7382-1326-2
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