Raising Your Spirited Child

Posted by Barb Hacker Aug 16, 2008

For anyone that has a child that tends to be more spritied than the norm, I recommend Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's Raising Your Sprited Child (Harper Collins, 1992). It's a great resource for parents whose child is just a little more sensitive, active, loud, rough and excitable than others.

Kurcinka's first chapter on labels and how damaging they are to our children is a good read by itself. It's important to learn how to rephrase those negative labels into more positive versions that will have a lasting impact on our children.