"Parentmaking is an excellent manual; in fact, it's top-notch. The curriculum and suggestions have been a wonderful stimulus to many parenting programs."

T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., distinguished pediatrician and Clinical Professor Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
Author of Infants and Mothers,Toddlers and Parents, On Becoming a Family, Touchpoints. and others.

"The most detailed, factual and practical handbook available for any leader of a parenting group. I recommend it highly."

Louise Bates Ames, Ph.D., Associate Director
Gesell Institute,
New Haven, CT
Author of Child Behavior, Your One-Year-Old, Your Two-Year-Old, (Three-Year-Old, etc.) and others.

"Parentmaking does an excellent job in focusing on the practical, day-to-day issues that face parents during the baby and toddler years; its anecdotal interludes depict the realities of the demands of baby care. The bibliographic selections are very well chosen and the section on temperament has captured the essence of our work and its implications."

Stella Chess, M.D., child psychiatrist
New York University Medical Center
Author of Temperament and Development,
Your Child is a Person, Know Your Child, and others.

"Parentmaking is an outstanding book. I believe it is the best in its field for use by instructors who are teaching parent classes about babies and toddlers. It is obvious that a great deal of informed and loving work went into it. It is not only incredibly comprehensive, but is clear and readable. Use it for your parent groups with babies and young children up to three. You won't find a better book."

Fitzhugh Dodson, Ph.D., psychologist and educator
Author of How to Parent, How to Father,
How to Discipline With Love, and others.

"Parenting is important business.  This book can help both parents and teachers of parenting classes be with children in a way that the meaningful qualities (such as coping, loving, creativity, intelligence) can be nourished and enriched. It deals with specifics, and it also offers new possibilities, through tangible examples, for helping our children and parents become more fully human.

Virginia M. Satir, D.S.S., (1916-1988)
Internationally known therapist and educator
Author of Conjoint Family Therapy, Peoplemaking,
Making Contact, Your Many Faces, Self-Esteem and others.

"Congratulations. The Family Resource Coalition's 1990's survey of parenting curricula nation-wide has found Parentmaking to be tied for first place as a valuable and highly recommended parenting program!!"

Lynn Pooley, Former Director
Family Resource Coalition's NRC / FSP, Chicago

"The new second edition of Parentmaking continues to be an excellent resource for parent educators working with parents of infants and toddlers in all types of programs as it has been in Minnesota's Early Childhood Family Education programs. It provides the kind of in-depth information that both new and experienced parent educators find useful in their work. It's a must-have updated classic!"

Betty Cooke, Ph.D., State Co-Coordinator
Early Childhood and Family Education Programs
Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning, St. Paul

"It is very timely that Dr. Rothenberg and her colleagues have written a new updated second edition of Parentmaking. With the rapidly expanding number of parent-child groups, a new corps of group leaders is emerging. Parentmaking is a marvelous resource for them, offering both practical knowledge and in-depth understanding. This continues to be a book that I enjoy and find to be of great value."

Helen Reid, L.C.S.W. Clinical Coordinator,
Early Childhood Center
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

"If you are just starting out working with new parents, I can't imagine teaching without this marvelous resource and those with experience will find much additional material to enrich their classes. The breadth and depth of this handbook are phenomenal. If you're looking for something concerning any aspect of parenting classes, it is bound to be here."

Haniet Palmer, RN., childbirth educator and nurse-midwife. National Trainer for ASPO (childbirth education association)

"Parentmaking is the book I most recommend most for any group working in the field of parent education. It is complete, practical, accurate and addresses the many specific concerns of parents. The resource information section is worth the price alone. This book will be beneficial to anyone working with parents of young children in a variety of services. Thanks for doing and now updating this valuable book for all of us - parents and teachers."

Donna Newton, Director
Parenting Center at Children's Hospital
New Orleans

"Parentmaking has been an outstanding model enhancing the development of service and training programs throughout the U.S. and Canada. This new updated and expanded edition successfully addresses the information needed in parenting classes due to social changes such as the increased number of working mothers. This handbook has made and will continue to make a critical contribution to the development of medically and socially responsive programs in primary prevention."

Alan J. Rosenthal, M.D., Former Director
The Children's Health Council
Pale Alto, CA.