I read my first book by PDT several months ago - The Age of Opportunity - and found his writing to be permeated with a similar posture to your description of him as "a sensitive, careful, wise presence trying to write graciously and build grace into people's lives." Although I started reading that book as a teacher seeking to hone his classroom management, I quickly donned my parent hat too and have been incorporating his principles and wisdom into the parenting of my own children.
I read my first book by PDT several months ago - The Age of Opportunity - and found his writing to be permeated with a similar posture to your description of him as "a sensitive, careful, wise presence trying to write graciously and build grace into people's lives." Although I started reading that book as a teacher seeking to hone his classroom management, I quickly donned my parent hat too and have been incorporating his principles and wisdom into the parenting of my own children.