Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Parents are People Too
Katherine Gordy Levine · 1997
65/100
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The emotional-fitness angle is genuinely underserved in parenting literature, and Levine's background — 14 years caring for 360 foster teens plus a Columbia academic post — gives her real credibility to write about the hard feelings parenting surfaces. The 1997 publication date is a genuine drag, though, and the absence of any meaningful critical record makes it hard to recommend over more current options covering the same self-care territory.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety88
substance68
craft60
originality65
accuracy65
hype58
age-fit72
human-eye60
Penny’s verdict65
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