Healthy Read: `Great Kids’

HEALTHY READ:

“Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the 10 Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life” ($22.95, Da Capo Lifelong Books) identifies traits including curiosity, perseverance and empathy, which parents can enable their children to master. Take engagement, for example. One way to encourage it is to broaden your child’s relationship beyond parents to peers of the same and opposite sex, other relatives and other adults.

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