Helping a Child - Hari Datt Sharma

Parents need to look within to see how they can be model parents and provide a healthy environment for proper mental, emotional and physical growth of their children. Focussing on this basic issue, this book holds a mirror to parents, and shows how they can excel in the art of parenting. However over protection or restrictiveness can spoil a child; permissiveness or indulgence can make him anti-social, rejection can work on his personality as to why he takes to lying, stealing or mud-eating.

The book is a total guide on the subject covering topics from effects of disturbed parenthood, role of right communication, common childhood behaviourial disorders like stuttering, bed-wetting, nail biting to behaviour improvement techniques, skills development, fostering creativity and helping in setting and achieving of goal — and finally a complete section on looking after handicapped children.