
As Good As I Could Be
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Susan is raising a daughter, 18, and a son, 11; they have all survived divorce, blending families, issues at school, eating disorders, and alcoholism. They have negotiated the rocky shoals of adolescence and the teenage years with their love and respect for each other intact. Cheever describes her children as smart, kind, and connected; As Good as I Could Be is the story of how that happened.
Cheever reveals the challenges, the joys, and the heartbreaks of being a parent. Using the domestic details of her family's life, she illuminates larger truths, starting with the most basic: in order to raise happy, stable, successful children, parents can't be afraid to use their authority -- financial, emotional, and experiential; a family is not -- and should not be -- a democracy; teaching your children to celebrate their mistakes may help them to forgive you yours; and no matter how damaged or unhappy an adult's childhood was, it should not affect the way they parent their children.
Provocative, perceptive, wise, and unflinchingly honest, As Good as I Could Be is a touchstone for all parents who are doing the best they can.
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- Intro
- Cover
- Colophon
- Also By
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Part One
- Chapter 1: Real Me
- Chapter 2: The Birth of a Child
- Chapter 3: The Birth of a Parent
- Chapter 4: Might Makes Right?
- Chapter 5: Teacher Versus Parent
- Chapter 6: Stepmother
- Chapter 7: Please Don't Go!
- Chapter 8: Tantrums
- Chapter 9: Divorce
- Chapter 10: It's Not the Divorce That Hurts
- Chapter 11: Children and Therapy
- Chapter 12: School
- Chapter 13: Inventing Adolescence
- Chapter 14: Baby-sitters
- Chapter 15: My Daughter Searches for God
- Part Two
- Chapter 16: Rabbit in the Snow
- Chapter 17: Comforts
- Chapter 18: Does Money Help?
- Chapter 19: Clothes
- Chapter 20: The Pedagogy of Parenting:
- Chapter 21: The Ethics of Parenting
- Chapter 22: Pets
- Chapter 23: Teenagers:
- Chapter 24: Avoiding the Broccoli Battles
- Chapter 25: Eating Disorders
- Chapter 26: Children and Alcohol
- Chapter 27: How Love Works
- Chapter 28:Believe
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
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