The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied

In the 1950s, psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott wrote about the ""good enough mother"" the mother who makes mistakes but still manages to raise passably healthy children. In The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Be Perfectly Satisfied, clinical psychologist Brad E. Sachs goes further, arguing that no one can be the perfect mother or father or have the perfect child. What's more, he boldly posits, that's all right. Although some parents may be alarmed by the book's directness, many will find it reassuring. Sachs is scheduled to appear on NBC's Today Show on June 12. Agent, Sarah Jane Freymann. ( June 1)