Becoming a Brother
A Child Learns about Life, Family, and Self
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1993
- Category
- General
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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.