What Every Child Needs

Getting to the Heart of Mothering

By: Elisa Morgan, Carol Kuykendall

Narrated by: Elisa Morgan

The love you have for your children can give them a foundation for life -- provided you show it in the ways they need most. And now there’s help from the people best qualified to give it: moms like you who are successfully meeting the challenge. What Every Child Needs draws on the insights of moms across the United States and on the latest research to help you meet your children’s nine basic needs for -- Security: Hold-Me-Close Love -- Affirmation: Crazy-About-Me Love -- Belonging: Fit-Me-Into-the-Family Love -- Discipline: Give-Me-Limits Love -- Guidance: Show-Me-and-Tell-Me Love -- Respect: Let-Me-Be-Me Love -- Play: Play-With-Me Love -- Independence: Let-Me-Grow-Up Love -- Hope: Give-Me-Hope Love -- Using a child’s language of love, Elisa Morgan and Carol Kuykendall of Mothers of Preschoolers International (MOPS) show you how to recognize and meet each need . . . and how to respect your own needs in the process. You’ve got what it takes! And you don’t have to be Supermom to do it -- just the mother and the person you are. What Every Child Needs is full of sound advice and encouraging words. It’s liberally seasoned with poignant stories and wise, witty quotes from moms. And it’s well-stocked with practical suggestions for how to start meeting your child’s different needs today. This upbeat book will give you what you need to give your children what they need. So say good-bye to those nagging fears and self-doubts . . . and hello to healthy, effective parenting.

Waste of Time!

What a waste of time! This book offers no unique or interesting insight and, at time, can be a little scary in its narrow perspective. If you find this helpful, you may want to take some basic parenting classes (we can all benefit from that) or evaluate your ability and readiness to parent a child, which is a significant moral and social responsibility.
I personally found Emotional Intelligence to be infinately more useful on the subject of what a child needs than this trite book. I personally think that book (Emotional Intelligence) teaches people about parenting and provides insights about crucial issues to the growth of one's baby (should be a must read for every parent, teacher, officer worker, family member..... etc etc etc). There is no single right way to parent but, hopefully, all parents have some basic emotional skills to help their child reach certain basic emotional levels. This book is geared to those lacking in such basic skills.

Mommies Only

While the content is somewhat helpful to both parents -- the advice could be applied by father or mother -- be warned that this audioprogram speaks to a particular audience, preschool mothers. I seem to recall that Dad got one mention, along with other people that may have a relationship with the child, such as babysitters. Having a particular audience is perfectly okay, but in fairness to potential purchasers, the description of the audioprogram should better identify that audience.