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Filled with relevant, expert, and practical child-rearing information, this invaluable guide also helps parents understand and utilize parenting resources ranging from scientific research to Internet sites to the popular press.

Taking up where the 2004 edition of The Educated Parent left off, Child Rearing in the 21st Century is a must-have guide to parenting best practices. Author Joseph D. Sclafani, a psychologist and family therapist, highlights the different approaches to child rearing and provides practical advice about which approaches work best and why.

Topics covered range from the role of the parent as supporter/protector to the efficacy of daycare and the ways parents can prepare for and assist in a child's education. The book also looks at parenting after a divorce, at the importance of fathers in children's lives, and at such 21st-century issues as cyberbullying and the anxiety-producing effects of societal pressures. One of the unique aspects of the book is that it presents and explains expert knowledge from journals and research studies that are often inaccessible to the everyday reader. Centers of parenting advice such as the Internet and parenting magazines are evaluated as well.

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In this revision of The Educated Parent: Recent Trends in Raising Children (CH, Feb'05, 42-3504), Sclafani (psychology, Univ. of Tampa) continues to provide readers access to the appropriate theoretical discussions and research-based findings necessary to sort through and understand media blasts on topics such as helicopter parenting, tiger moms, cyber bullying, sexting, and the effects of day care. This volume can be read independently of its previous edition. The first chapter, "Parenting 101," sets a foundation for the "good enough parent," and the second chapter builds on this by addressing the role of wellness, well-being, and balance in creating an environment wherein parents are able to utilize the resources available to devise a parenting plan that best suits their own family. Subsequent chapters focus on the impact of marital quality, specific parenting techniques and modes of discipline, means of protecting a child from stress and anxiety, the ever-increasing roles of fathers in caring for children, and the impact of day care on the development of young children. Sclafani also provides insightful evaluations of online-based parenting advice centers and parenting magazines to assist parents in finding quality information, should they seek more depth on topics. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, including vocational schools; graduate students; professionals; general readers. R. B. Stewart Jr. Oakland University

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Joseph D. Sclafani , PhD, is professor of psychology and interim associate provost and dean of academic services at the University of Tampa, Tampa, FL.