Description
Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Parenting. "Parents are raising their children in a world that is both more complicated and more flooded with information. The cross-generational passing down of parental wisdom from one's own family and neighbors is no longer common practice. Instead, parents receive overwhelming, often competing, advice from books, magazines, social media, and Internet 'experts.' While this abundance of childrearing advice shows society's interest in parenting, it also means that there is no magic formula when it comes to raising children. In this book, I have tried to provide young parents with some guidelines that will help them make sound parenting decisions for themselves. These are based on personal knowledge gained over forty years of teaching and widely accepted theories and reputable research. I also wrote from my own experience raising three children and four grandchildren. What was most helpful in writing this book, however, were the insights I've gained from my interactions with countless children and parents at the San Jose State University Child Laboratory, where I worked as the lab director."—from the Author's Preface
Author Bio
Chungsoon C. Kim received her undergraduate education in Home Economics at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. She earned her MA in child development from the University of Georgia and her PhD in the same field at Florida State University. She taught at San Jose State University for forty-two years (from 1965 to her retirement in 2007), with the exception of a two-year stint at Seoul National University as an associate professor and as chair of the Child and Consumer Studies Department. She was the chair of the Child and Adolescent Development Department at San Jose State University, where she is now an emeritus professor.
Dr. Kim is the author of several books, including Child Development and Guidance. She has also published twenty-six research papers in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Her research has explored the effects of child- rearing attitudes and practices on the development of children, the parenting practices of American versus Korean mothers, the effects of language on children's development of number concepts, and sources of the adolescent-parent conflicts in Korean-American and American families.
She is the recipient of many awards, including the Best Home Economics Professor Award and the Outstanding Advisor Award from San Jose State University, as well as the American Educational Research Association's Outstanding Study of the Year Award.
Author City: San Jose, CA USA