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TALKING TO TWEENIES

Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer

Hodder Mobius

ISBN 0340734418, £10.99

Star Rating: 2/5

Hartley-Brewer offers some practical and sensible advice about helping your child as they grow up. She describes ways in which to build their confidence through positive and thoughtful caring, writes Geoff Corbishley. 

But it does have weaknesses: its target audience appears to be white parents in stable relationships. Nods to other cultures or family structures are mostly tokenistic.

There is an unstated assumption that the parents have a sound relationship with the child and some readers may find the style, with its lists of what to do, annoying.

The book has limited use for care professionals and foster carers.

Geoff Corbishley is a professional foster carer.