- Overview
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This book answers the questions "what is the essence of childhood education?" and "how should parents view and raise their children?" in easy-to-understand language using the latest results from neuroscience and psychology research and the author's 40 years of clinical experience as a pediatric psychiatrist.
- Book Intro
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This book traces the daily activities and personality patterns of people backwards to analyze what type of attachments they formed with their parents and how these turned out, thereby demonstrating how great the effect of parental intimacy in early childhood is on the formation of a person's character and personality. Additionally, the author very accurately points out the essence and key points of child rearing based on various examples which he dealt with during his career, which many parents may identify with. Above all, what's most moving is the affectionate recommendations and warm advice that can be found throughout the book.
The author's main argument throughout the book is that "growing up a nice person is a way to become a happy person in the future." According to the book, how a child's final personality is formed depends on how he/she was raised. The child's parents, the environment they grow up in and the relationships they form consequently determine their future.
Even if a child is fastidious, with continuous and warm maternal care, a stable relationship with the mother can be formed and the child grow up gentle and peaceful in mind. Also, if the mother reads the signs of attachment behavior and responses properly, the child will grow up resilient. But if the mother doesn't interpret the signs correctly, can't be bothered, ignores the child's request, or sometimes accepts or in other times rejects the child depending on her emotional ups and downs, the child will become very anxious psychologically. That is, when a child's personality is forming, attachment with the mother plays a more important role than natural disposition. This book repeatedly tells us that if you want your child to grow up to be healthy and able to get along with other people, you should take a role model as a good parent at home, since home is the primary school of emotions.
- About the Author
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Noh Gyeongseon
Noh Gyeongseon (M) moved to America after graduating from Yonsei University College of Medicine, holding the position of Professor of Pediatric Psychology at Columbia University, the University of Maryland-College Park, and the Illinois State University while working as a psychiatrist and pediatric psychiatrist specialist for around 30 years. After returning to Korea, he worked as the Director of Pediatric Psychiatry at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, a Clinical Psychology Professor at the School of Medicine of Sungkyunkwan University, and Chairperson of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is the most-noted doctor in this field, known to have opened up a new horizon in domestic pediatric psychological treatments. Following his retirement, he has been lecturing at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul Women's University and elsewhere. He wrote What it Means to Raise Children Well.