Raising Your Spirited Child
A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
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February 6, 2006
Kurcinka's now-classic guide to raising children who are "more"—more intense, more sensitive, more persistent, etc.—gets a greatest-hits treatment in this brief audio version read by the author, a teacher and parent educator. The abridgement can be abrupt at times; in the effort to condense a 300-page book to a three hours, many memorable and useful examples, illustrations and anecdotes have been excised in favor of general principles and descriptions of the basic traits common to spirited children. Helpfully, though, each CD is imprinted with track titles and time signatures, a great boon to parents who want to retrieve specific information quickly. Kurcinka's voice can sometimes be a problem; it tends to trail off to such a low end-of-sentence volume that listeners may have to strain to catch what she is saying. Kurcinka never really achieves a deep or comfortable vocal resonance even at the best of times, though she does exhibit a quiet dramatic intensity despite the brittle, high tones. In all, it's difficult to justify the additional $10 this audio costs over the far meatier trade paperback version, which offers considerably more bang for the buck. HarperCollins paperback.
Parents with overactive, intense, and overly sensitive children will appreciate the support and practical guidance offered in this program. Written and delivered in the style of a parent education seminar, the material generally avoids intellectual conceits and mental health language while offering clear descriptions and prescriptions for children with these emotional features. The children the author targets are those who are busy and difficult, but who have many strengths and are less impaired than those with attention deficit or hyperactivity syndromes. These children present a sometimes grueling challenge to parents, a challenge that this audio speaks to with compassion and with many nonthreatening suggestions. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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