An eclectic showcase of the most influential writing about children
from the past four hundred years.
Children are a wonder, a blessing, a miracle, and everyone has an
opinion on how we should raise them. From novelists to pediatricians and
from modern parenting "experts" to child psychologists, Tiny Feet is
the first anthology of its kind, showcasing a range of the most
influential writing about children over the past four hundred years.
Published chronologically, the extracts featured in this delightful
compendium show the extent to which some of our attitudes have changed
while others remain absolute, and remind us of the joy that children
have always brought to our lives.
Contributors include: Erik H. Erikson on shame and guilt; Marvin J.
Gersh on how to raise children in your "spare time"; Naomi Stadlen on
how parenting books undermine parenting by reducing it to a number of
essential tasks; and Donald Winnicott on "the good-enough mother."
Plus: memoir, fiction, and further opinion from Daniel Burgess,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Isabella Beeton,
Charles Darwin, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Sully, Maria Montessori,
Bertrand Russell, Margaret Mead, Jean Piaget, Harry F. Harlow, Benjamin
Spock, Marvin J. Gersh, Toni Morrison, Lydia Davis, Alison Gopnik,
Giuseppina Persico, Cleon C. Mason, Bernardine Evaristo, Ella Cara
Deloria, John B. Watson, and Rosalie Rayner.
