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Becoming a Brother

A Child Learns about Life, Family, and Self

by (author) Morton J. Mendelson

Publisher
The MIT Press
Initial publish date
Mar 1993
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780262631464
    Publish Date
    Mar 1993
    List Price
    $32.00 USD

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Description

Becoming a Brother captures all the complexity and richness of a preschooler's responses to family change. Strictly speaking, four-year-old Simon became a sibling when Asher was born. But role transitions take time, and Simon continued developing his new family role long after Asher came home from the hospital. Here the boy's father, a developmental psychologist, offers a rare view of one child's experience of a common family event.

About the author

Morton J. Mendelson is Associate Professor of Psychology at McGill University.

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