TINY FEET: A Treasury for Parents

Tiny Feet is an eclectic showcase of the most influential writing about children from the past 300 years. Children are a wonder, a blessing, a miracle, and everyone has an opinion on how we should raise them. From novelists to paediatricians; from modern parenting 'experts' to child psychologists; from debunked academics to 1950s 'agony aunts', Tiny Feet is the first anthology of its kind. 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: Isabella Beeton, Charles Darwin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Maria Montessori, Bertrand Russell, Bruno Bettelheim on the value of fairy tales; Erik H. Erikson on the meaning of play; Marvin J. Gersh on how to raise children in your 'spare time'; Good Housekeeping (1913) on how to have 'better babies'; Naomi Stadlen on how parenting books undermine parenting by reducing it to a number of essential tasks; Donald Winnicott on 'the good-enough mother'. Plus: memoir, fiction and further opinion on education, child's play, conditioned emotional reactions, advice to mothers, child-pestering parents, spare time, disturbed adults, singing lullabies and more. 150 pages, pagemarker and cloth clothbound edition with tipped in illustration of booties on the cover.