Parenting plus

Peggy Finston MD: I wrote this book over twenty years ago when my kids, then young, were ill. As a parent and a psychiatrist, I was painfully aware of the abyss between the facts of diseases and experiences of patients and families. This book is about the emotional issues parents face when their child is sick. Whatever wisdom to be found here was culled from those who generously shared their lives. There are no accounts of marathons won. Rather, they told me about the sometimes grueling trials and intimate triumphs to cultivate their children's character. Writing this book prepared me for my…