Handbook of Parenting

This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent, professional, and policy maker wonders about. Parenting is a perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to" parenting books and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However, almost none of these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting, and includes historical considerations of the topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of classical and modern research, and forecasts of future directions of theory and research. Together, the five volumes in the Handbook cover Children and Parenting, the Biology and Ecology of Parenting, Being and Becoming a Parent, Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting. Volume 5, The Practice of Parenting, describes the nuts-and-bolts of parenting as well as the promotion of positive parenting practices. Parents meet the biological, physical, and health requirements of children. Parents interact with children socially. Parents stimulate children to engage and understand the environment and to enter the world of learning. Parents provision, organize, and arrange their children's home and local environments and the media to which children are exposed. Parents also manage child development vis-à-vis childcare, school, the circles of medicine and law, as well as other social institutions through their active citizenship. The chapters in Part I, on Practical Parenting, review the ethics of parenting, parenting and the development of children's self-regulation, discipline, prosocial and moral development, and resilience as well as children's language, play, cognitive, and academic achievement and children's peer relationships. The chapters in Part II, on Parents and Social Institutions, explore parents and their children's childcare, activities, media, schools, and healthcare and examine relations between parenthood and the law, public policy, and religion and spirituality.

Marc H. Bornstein is Senior Investigator, Head of Child and Family Research, and Head of the Imaging and Behavioral Determinants of Development Affinity Group at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Part I: Practical Parenting 1. The Ethics of Parenting Ross A. Thompson and Diana Baumrind 2. Parenting and Children's Self-Regulation Wendy S. Grolnick, Alessandra Caruso, and Madeline Levitt 3. Parenting and Child Discipline Jennifer E. Lansford 4. Parenting and Children's Prosocial Development Tracy L. Spinrad, Nancy Eisenberg, and Carlos Valiente 5. Parenting and Moral Development Judith G. Smetana, Courtney L. Ball, and Ha Na Yoo 6. Parenting to Promote Resilience in Children Ann S. Masten and Alyssa Palmer 7. Language and Play in Parent-Child Interactions Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Yana A. Kuchirko, Kelly Escobar, and Marc H. Bornstein 8. How Parents Can Maximize Children's Cognitive Abilities Karin Sternberg, Wendy M. Williams, and Robert J. Sternberg 9. Parenting of Children's Academic Motivation Adele Eskeles Gottfried 10. Parents and Children's Peer Relationships Gary W. Ladd and Becky Kochenderfer-Ladd Part II: Parents and Social Institutions 11. Choosing Childcare for Young Children Alice Sterling Honig 12. Parenting and Children's Organized Activities Deborah Lowe Vandell, Sandra D. Simpkins, and Christopher M. Wegemer 13. Parenting in the Digital Age Rachel Barr 14. Parenting the Child in School Robert Crosnoe and Robert W. Ressler 15. Parenting and Children's Health Care Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates, Victoria Chen, Caitlin F. Canfield, and Alan L. Mendelsohn 16. Parenting and the Law Caitlin Cavanagh and Elizabeth Cauffman 17. Parenting and Public Policy James Garbarino, Amy Governale, and Kathleen Kostelny 18. Parenting, Religion, and Spirituality Annette Mahoney and Chris J. Boyatzis