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Book Review: The Parent-Child Connection: Your Guide to Baby and Child Behavior

Interpreting research for a general audience is always a tricky business, and few scholars or clinicians can do it well. Even those who are extremely skilled and careful in their recommendations run the risk of being misunderstood, of seeing their suggestions become caricatures in the hands of inept readers. There is no foolproof guide to child care or child management. Nevertheless, some guides to caring for children, such as Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care, have helped millions of parents do a better job of raising healthy children. Rincover's The Parent-Child Connection promises to help today's parents understand the behavioral dimension of caring for infants and young children much as Spock's "Bible" provides parents with knowledge of children's physical health and illness. Rincover intends this book to be a behavioral '"companion to Dr. Spock,' to show specifically when there is and is not a problem, why a child is behaving that way and what % parent can do about it" (p. xii). He accomplishes this task, by interpreting research on child behavior and management, and by presenting his interpretations in an engaging, highly readable style. The book is probably not meant to be read from cover to cover, as some sections seem quite repetitious, but it is, as Rincover intended, a very practical resource and a complementary companion to Dr. Spock. It will serve the dual function of calming parents' fears when they realize that their child's behavior is quite typical, and of giving practical advice for dealing with common forms of misbehaviors. The book focuses on the behavior of babies Book