title: Keeping Your Child in Mind (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
author:  Claudia M. Gold 
description: <P>"Publishers Weekly, "8/1/11 "Readers seeking a comprehensive approach to child-rearing will welcome this thoughtful book."<br /><br /><P> "Publishers Weekly, "8/1/11<BR>"Readers seeking a comprehensive approach to child-rearing will welcome this thoughtful book."<P>"Kirkus Review", 9/15/11<BR> "Would be especially useful for new parents in search of holistic guidance. A panoply of hypothetical situations offering broad-based solutions."<P>Bookviews, September 2011<BR> "The book looks at various ages and stages of development, imparting excellent advice that will make the job of parenting much easier."<P><br /><br /><P>"Publishers Weekly, "8/1/11<BR>"Readers seeking a comprehensive approach to child-rearing will welcome this thoughtful book."<P>"Kirkus Review," 9/15/11<BR>"Would be especially useful for new parents in search of holistic guidance. A panoply of hypothetical situations offering broad-based solutions."<P>Bookviews, September 2011<BR>"The book looks at various ages and stages of development, imparting excellent advice that will make the job of parenting much easier.""Salt Lake City"" Desert"" News," 9/11/11"Engaging and enlightening, "Keeping Your Child in Mind "is a book worth reading and rereading for any parent who is looking for understanding, support and a loving method that will bring out the best in a child. It is a breath of fresh air that parents may not have known they needed."<BR>Infodad.com, 9/15/11<BR>"Valuable...Gold couples an understanding of recent scientific and medical research with insights into parent-child relationships gleaned from her own work ... Connectedness is the point here... Gold's examples of families with which her approach has worked are helpful."<P>"San Francisco Book Review," 10/5/11<BR>"Gold supports her recommendations using easy-to-understand situations, examples and solutions gathered from her interactions with her clients and referring to current research in child development."Examiner.com, 9/29/11"Gold's book is a powerful way to bring decades of developmental research and attachment theory to everyday parenting situations. It gives all parents the insight needed to understand the emotions that undermine best intentions and explains why there isn't "one right way" in parenting..."Keeping Your Child in Mind" can offer relief to parents frustrated by frustrated by day-to-day parenting or help change a self-defeating parenting pattern. It holds the key to enjoying your child again and creating a satisfying family life." "Mid-Ohio"" Valley"" Parents Magazine," October 2011<BR>"Give[s] parents a lot to think about." Cleveland Psy
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  CONTENTS
  
  1 QUEEN OF MEAN
  
  2 A CARE PACKAGE
  
  3 SILENUS
  
  4 UP AND AWAY!
  
  5 THE GOLDEN TOUCH
  
  6 DO NOT TOUCH!
  
  7 SHOPPING SPREE
  
  8 TRADE-OFFS
  
  9 FAMILY MATTERS
  
  10 KEEP-AWAY
  
  11 SEARCHING FOR PIRATES
  
  12 RICHES
  
   _AMPHITRITE THE BUBBLY_ EXCERPT
  
   _ABOUT JOAN HOLUB & SUZANNE WILLIAMS_
  
   _For our mega-terrific fans!_
  
   _Rachael C., Micci S., Kylie S., Caitlin R. & Hannah R., Erin P. & Savanna
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