Editorial Review
As time-tested as it is timely, the expert advice in this book has helped thousands of readers improve on their parenting practices. Now, substantially revised and expanded,
Growing Up Again offers further guidance on providing children with the structure and nurturing that are so critical to their healthy development--and to our own.
Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson provide the information every adult caring for children should know--about ages and stages of development, ways to nurture our children and ourselves, and tools for personal and family growth. This new edition also addresses the special demands of parenting adopted children and the problem of overindulgence; a recognition and exploration of prenatal life and our final days as unique life stages; new examples of nurturing, structuring, and discounting, as well as concise ways to identify them; help for handling parenting conflicts in blended families, and guidelines on supporting children's spiritual growth.
About the Authors:
Jean Illsley Clarke is a parent educator, teacher trainer, the author of Self-Esteem: A Family Affair, and co-author of the Help! for Parents series. She is a popular international lecturer and workshop presenter on the topics of self-esteem, parenting, family dynamics, and adult children of alcoholics. Clarke resides in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Connie Dawson is a consultant and lecturer who works with adults who work with kids. A former teacher, she trains youth workers to identify and help young people who are at risk. Dawson lives in Evergreen, Colorado.
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Customer Reviews
Parenting ourselves, Parenting our children 
2006-10-28
This is a user friendly book that really helps change the pattern we grew up with and helps us to become the healthy parent we needed and did not have. I highly recomment it to become aware of ourselves and to heal into healthy individuals.
Definitely Growing Up Again 2005-09-23
The book zoned in on what I had missed emotionally in my youth. I was able to put a finger on the fact that my life's foundation was based on denial and discounting, a topic that the book touched on a lot.
The chapter on "Ages and Stages" is definitely an eye opener and you can relate a lot of experiences from it.
It's a must read for everyone.
Wonderful - Applies to All of Us! 2003-09-03
Jean Illsley Clarke has given parents and families a real gift with this book.
Our family has benefitted so much from her insights,
that we were able to understand and apply right away.
Ms. Clark also wrote the foreword for the children's picture book
If I Ran the Family, which presents many of these same principles
for parents and kids to read together.
A "Must Read" Book for anyone who wants to grow 2003-01-29
Reading Growing Up Again has given me tremendous insights into the kind of parenting I was given and how that is affecting my parenting and grandparenting. I find that I go back to the book often and re-read portions of it. As an adoptee, I especially appreciated the chapter devoted entirely to adoption. Thank you, Connie and Jean!
Solid Basic Information for Parenting Anyone 
2002-12-11
This book could be used to work on "inner child" issues. Human needs for recognition, stimulation, certainty, nurture and structure are discussed. The authors give more than enough examples of each diffent type. The reader is given a new way of looking at how we interact with eachother and ourselves. I think this book is based on the theory of transactional analysis. There is also a great section with affirmations and helpful behaviours for each developmental stage. I also enjoyed the comforting drawings sprinkled throughout.
One of my favorite books 2008-05-12
I have used this book for parenting groups, for high school students studying human development, and for individual parents trying to understand how their parenting styles affect children's behaviors. Two illuminating charts illustrate 6 parenting styles for care & nurture, and for providing structure. One of my favorite features is an "Ages & Stages" section in the appendix. Each stage roughly correlates to Erik Erickson's stage theory and outlines the developmental tasks for that stage, a list of helpful as well as harmful parenting behaviors, signs that the stage may not have been successfully completed and ideas for "re-parenting" yourself to revisit that stage. People cannot help but come away from this books with new insights into their own behaviors -- in parenting their own children or reflecting on how they were parented. The writing is engaging, not pompous or stiff. I'm a family therapist, and this is one of my favorite books -- one that I frequently recommend to parents.
Outstanding Parenting Guide 2008-02-05
This is the single best guide for parenting ever developed. As a retired school counselor, I continue to use this material when working with parents wanting assurance they are doing the best parenting possible.
The best manual on parenting 2007-04-18
I picked up this book before having our first child thinking I would get some insights into how to raise our daughter. What I found was that the book was really for me. Through it, I learned about how I have some of the same needs as children--needs like recognition, feeling valued, loved for who I am, unconditionally.
What's more,it helped me understand better what my needs really are and how to get them met by myself and from others who love me. Most importantly I learned that in order to parent my daugther the I way I want her to grow up, I needed to parent myself and make sure my actions are congruent with my what I want for her. I strongly recommend this book for anyone who wants to create a solid, loving, nurturing environment for themselves and their children.
What a good book 2007-01-13
This book is meant for those that need help to see what they are missing in their life and how that relates to how they parent. I like how they have redone the entire book and still kept the same excellent content. This a workbook type study manuel and it is worth getting. So many parents didn't have superior parenting and this helps fill in the gaps without making the parent feel worthless or stupid.
A book everyone should read ! 2006-11-05
I love this book because of the way it teaches parents how to interact with children of all ages. You do not need to be a parent to benefit from this book. As grandparents, aunts, uncles, and friends, we all come in contact with children. I did not have this book when I first became a parent but it is never to late to use this information no matter how old you or your children are. I have given this book to new parents as a gift.
