Children are not small adults. They are fully-formed people with needs, feelings, and an inner life that is richer and more complex than their vocabulary can yet express. The families who understand this — truly understand it — experience a different quality of closeness. Children Are People Too is the book that gets you there.

Drawing on her decades of clinical practice as a Ph.D. psychologist and child development expert, Dr. Sharon Fried Buchalter reveals the 8 foundational principles of family happiness — grounded in developmental science, emotional attunement, and the kind of practical wisdom that only comes from working intimately with hundreds of families navigating the beautiful complexity of raising children.