In this book, the preeminent child psychologist of our timegives us the results of his lifelong effort to determine what ismost crucial in successful child-rearing. His purpose is not togive parents preset rules for raising their children, but rather toshow them how to develop their own insights so that they willunderstand their own and their children's behavior in differentsituations and how to cope with it. Above all, he warns, parentsmust not indulge their impulse to try to create the child theywould like to have, but should instead help each child fullydevelop into the person he or she would like to be.