Second Edition of Popular Parenting Book Announced

Back in 2000, we reviewed and liked How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children by Dr. Gerald Newmark.

“How to Raise Emotionally Healthy Children feels like the culmination of a lifetime’s work and learning,” we said at the time. “A slender volume that nonetheless manages to get straight to the heart of the matter.”

A quarter of a million copies and nine years later, Newmark announces a second edition of his bestselling book “with an expanded vision of how parents can satisfy children’s emotional needs, and educators can create ... environments that significantly impact a child’s academic and social development.”

Newmark seems just as passionate about his mission as he was when the first edition was published. A parent, educator, researcher and consultant who works with parents, schools and youth, Newmark says he “wrote this book to raise public consciousness about the neglect of our children’s emotional needs, what I call the nation’s ‘missing agenda’.” According to Newmark, these things are usually addressed only in crisis, while he feels they should be addressed daily in all interactions with children.