But the best self-help books cover a lot more ground than you ... The title essay instructs us to teach children “not the little virtues but the great ones” – “not thrift but generosity ...

A good self-help book offers useful guidance that you can easily put into ... a responsible mother is not one who sacrifices her own happiness for the sake of her children, but one that shows them how ...

Self-help books can be an accessible starting point of one’s reading journey, and an introduction to other forms of writing and cultures.