I Can Fix This
And Other Lies I Told Myself While Parenting My Struggling Child
Publisher: Penguin Books - USA
Date of Publication: 21 May 2024
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780593653333 |
ISBN10: | 0593653335 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 288 pages |
Size: | 209x139 mm |
Weight: | 422 g |
Language: | English |
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Parents have all heard the saying, tiny people - tiny problems. Big people - bigger problems. But when Kristina Kuzmic started to see signs that her otherwise sunny, resilient teenage son was struggling, she felt sure that a few simple fixes would right the ship. Over the following months, the issues her family faced were more nuanced, complicated, and pervasive than she could've predicted. Not only that, the obligations, ideas, and unrealistic standards she'd unintentionally absorbed from parenting culture and social media made it impossible to ask for help, or even put into action the tools she'd been sure she'd deploy in a crisis. In this revealing and useful memoir Kristina debunks ten 'parenting truths' to show what actually helped for her family. While Kristina and and her son stand on the other side now stronger than ever, the story of their journey calls to parents who have felt the instinct to say 'I can fix this' in situations where love and compassion for their child far ex