A parenting guide providing compassionate instruction and insight into raising a resilient, well-balanced child. Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of lifes great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how childrens minds operate and what they need from those who look after them so they can develop into the best version of themselves. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of lessons, including ideas on how to saynoto a child one adores, how to look beneath the surface ofbadbehaviour to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, how to encourage open self-expression, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence. Importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not requiredand could indeed be unhelpful, because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything. Written in a to