Using Your Values to Raise Your Child to Be an Adult You Admire

Using Your Values to Raise Your Child to Be an Adult You Admire
Author: Harriet Heath
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781884734366

Values are the basis for every decision a parent makes. How parents decide to respond to a child's behaviour directly influences what the child learns to value. This book helps parents determine what they value, and helps them apply these values to their family life. Entertaining and enlightening examples illustrate the importance of maintaining a standard of behaviour that is consistent, and passing along those values to children to help them grow into responsible adults.

How Much Is Too Much? [previously published as How Much Is Enough?]

How Much Is Too Much? [previously published as How Much Is Enough?]
Author: Jean Illsley Clarke
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0738216828

A down-to-earth guide to regaining control of your kids and your family Overindulgence is not the badge of a bad parent. In fact, it comes directly from having a good and generous heart. But despite our good intentions, the abundance we heap on our kids often becomes more than they need or can handle. Family and parenting experts Jean Illsley Clarke, Connie Dawson, and David Bredehoft help you to understand: How damaging overindulgence can be for children When you are overindulging--and how to stop Which methods work best to establish firm rules and structure How to instill responsibility and independence in your kids What to do when family and friends are overindulging your kids What grandparents can do to help Based on new research gathered over the past ten years, How Much Is Too Much? gives you the insight and advice you need to put your children on track for a happy and successful life.

Parents Under Siege

Parents Under Siege
Author: James Garbarino
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0743223837

A compassionate and practical guide for parents facing the difficult task of raising children in an increasingly violent world. This intelligent, parent-centered reference takes a sympathetic yet tough-minded look at the forces that are shaping--and disrupting--American family life today.

Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations

Handbook of Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations
Author: Leon Kuczynski
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780761923640

This handbook provides an interdisciplinary perspective on theory, research and methodology on dynamic processes in parent-child relations. It focuses on cognitive, behavioural and relational processes that govern immediate parent-child interactions and long-term relationships.

Raising Passionate Jesus Followers

Raising Passionate Jesus Followers
Author: Phil Comer
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310347785

Hope and practical help for parents whose greatest longing is to shepherd their children into a vibrant faith in God. For Christian parents, there is no greater joy than seeing their children learn to walk with the Lord. And there is no greater fear than that their children will walk away from God. After serving together in pastoral ministry and raising their now-grown children, Phil and Diane Comer know those hopes and fears well. Like all new parents, they were intimidated and unsure about how to take on the task of spiritually training their young children. But now, with all four of their children grown and establishing their own households of faith, Phil and Diane have embarked on a quest to help the next generation of parents raise passionate Jesus followers. Drawing on years of pastoral counseling, teaching, leading, and decades of watching families from the perspective of pastors and leaders in ministry, Phil and Diane instruct, guide, encourage, and offer hope and practical help to Christian parents. Raising Passionate Jesus Followers is a manual full of practical, biblically based, and time-tested guidelines that parents will be able to turn to again and again through every stage of their children's development, including . . . Formulating a plan Laying the foundation, ages 0-5 Doing the framing, ages 6-12 Installing the functional systems, ages 13-17 Completing the finish work, ages 18-22 And keeping the front door open for your grown children

Sustainable Parenting

Sustainable Parenting
Author: Donovan C. Wilkin, Ph.D.
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1632491389

What if civilization disappeared virtually overnight, including 90% of the world’s population? What if the survivors had to start over on a desperately depleted planet? A growing number of prominent experts is warning of the potential collapse of human civilization before the middle of this century. What sort of human culture might re-emerge? Wilkin and Martin believe a more sustainable culture with a higher and more equitable quality of life is not only possible, but with a better understanding of evolution, probable. The key is in teaching children to be more caring, sharing, and tolerant of differences, as well as instilling deep reverence and respect for the natural world. This highly readable collection of parenting tips based in an ecological perspective on the latest childhood development research is intended to educate today’s parents, the first and most important teachers of tomorrow’s pioneers, in the skills they will need to establish a more livable and lasting human culture.

Unplugging Power Struggles

Unplugging Power Struggles
Author: Jan Faull
Publisher: Parenting Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781884734427

Children have a strong need to be in control of their own lives. Power struggles between parents and children most often occur in the toddler and teen years, but can happen at any time. This book is for parents whose children push for control beyond the limits of their development and maturity or beyond the parents' comfort level.Without clear guidance from parents, children flounder. However, children who are allowed to make some decisions are more willing to go along with parents when it comes to big decisions concerning safety, values, and conduct. Everyone benefits when a battle of wills can be avoided.

Handbook of Parenting

Handbook of Parenting
Author: Masud S Hoghughi
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2004-02-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1446206920

The Handbook of Parenting brings together in a single volume much of the theoretical and empirical knowledge and aspects of professional activity within the broadly defined field of parenting. Contributions are presented from an internationally renowned group of scholars known for their work in a range of disciplines, including child and family psychology, education and family studies, providing an accessible map of the major debates in theory, research and practice in this important and exciting field. The material is presented comprehensively. It encompasses essential policy and professional issues in all the main areas of current concern from parenting in culturally divergent settings, to parenting children with special needs in areas of physical, mental, social and educational functioning, to looking at ways in which the wider community and technological advances may be able to provide parenting support. Published in a single-volume format, this handbook will prove an invaluable and essential resource. Academics, researchers, practitioners and advanced students in a host of disciplines will gain from its breadth, wealth of information and enormous insight into the principal issues related to parenting theory and practice in the 21st century. The distinctive contribution of this handbook is to present a vast body of research and other information in a manner that is usable by practitioners in a wide range of child and parental support activities.

Developing Caring Relationships Among Parents, Children, Schools, and Communities

Developing Caring Relationships Among Parents, Children, Schools, and Communities
Author: Dana McDermott
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412954088

This book focuses on parents and teachers as adult learners, who should be growing and learning along with the children in their care. It lays out a theory of what parents and teachers need to care for children and themselves and then it shows how the author has assisted parents and teachers to put these theories into practice. McDermott relies on stories and listening to the voices of parents, teachers and children to make her case. She weaves together the latest theories and research with these stories. She uses narratives of actual school meetings, workshops, parent planning and discussion groups, testimonies, newsletters, and research of others in the field, to demonstrate applications of theory and research. She fills a gap by focusing on parents from all socioeconomic backgrounds. Key Features: o Focuses on parents and teachers as adult learners o Focuses on the dynamic process of parenting and teaching o Provides a theory to practice model to support parents, families and teachers o Provides a tool or guide for thinking through problems and finding solutions that take into consideration the needs of all involved.