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You and Your Child

This book contains valuable information and commonsense ideas for anyone who is involved with the upbringing of children. It is clearly written and very readable. Dr. de Kok has the happy knack of being able to translate highly complicated psychological theories into everyday language. Here is a book written by an expert which the average parent can read easily without the "mumbo jumbo" of psyc...

You and Your Daughter

The question that leaps to mind on reading Rose Hacker's book is?at what rea" ship is she aiming? If it is young "intelligent" parents, one cannot help feeling 1, they will have read a very great deal of what Mrs. Hacker has to say already in or other of Dr. Spock's three excellent books. There can be little doubt that she coV' much the same ground as he does, and he is very widely read indeed ...

Your Child and You

Your Child and You. By Cecil Hay-Shaw. John Murray. 154 pp. 6s. Too many manuals of child upbringing are apt to leave parents feeling that the wells of kindness and endurance in them are just not deep enough to provide that degree of tolerance and understanding the expert seems to think a necessity, if the major pitfalls of growth are to be avoided. Such approaches fail in their intention becau...

Overconfident: Do You Put Your Money on It?*

A group exhibits overconfidence if significantly more than half the group members declare to be better than the median in some characteristic. Overconfidence was found in verbal reports for a variety of characteristics and settings but was less often studied for choice behaviour. In an experiment we tested how perceived relative skill influences verbal and choice behaviour. Treatments varied ta...