Love That Boy
Author: Fournier, Ron
ISBN: 9780804140508
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Apr 2017
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
Editor of National Journal, and former head of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau, Ron Fournier movingly explores the outsize and crushing expectations that parents have for their kids through the lens of his relationship with his son, Tyler, who has mild Asperger's, in this New York Times bestselling memoir, now in paperback.
" A n eloquent, brave, big-hearted book...about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon."
-James Fallows, The Atlantic
Love That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children-popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius-and what they truly need-grit, empathy, character-are explored by National Journal's Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.
ISBN: 9780804140508
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Apr 2017
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
Editor of National Journal, and former head of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau, Ron Fournier movingly explores the outsize and crushing expectations that parents have for their kids through the lens of his relationship with his son, Tyler, who has mild Asperger's, in this New York Times bestselling memoir, now in paperback.
" A n eloquent, brave, big-hearted book...about the timeless anxieties and emotions of parenthood, and the modern twists thereon."
-James Fallows, The Atlantic
Love That Boy is a uniquely personal story about the causes and costs of outsized parental expectations. What we want for our children-popularity, normalcy, achievement, genius-and what they truly need-grit, empathy, character-are explored by National Journal's Ron Fournier, who weaves his extraordinary journey to acceptance around the latest research on childhood development and stories of other loving-but-struggling parents.
