I'll Be The Parent, You Be The Child: Encourage Excellence, Set Limits, And Lighten UpHachette Books, 2007 M10 10 - 288 pages With myriad parenting books available today, it's no wonder parents are confused by the range of opinions and quick fixes these books offer. I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Child leaves theories behind and gives parents of school-age children practical approaches for handling fundamental child-rearing issues. Out of a welter of parenting fads and on-going cultural upheavals, Paul Kropp answers parents' number-one question, "What is the right way to rear our children to become responsible, well-adjusted adults?" Kropp responds with irrefutable evidence that favors time-honored essentials for parenting success, from providing unconditional love to setting consistent rules-qualities we know are easily overlooked in favor of feel-good fads. Next he tackles specific, topical problems that concern parents most, offering advice that often runs counter to fashion but that parents will cheer. Topics include praise and its dangers; quality time, and why it never works; privacy, and why too much of it is a bad thing; allowance, and the true purpose of giving a child his own money; and much more.This is a bracing, often humorous, book that debunks easy, TV-style parenting and provides down-to-earth problem-solving that parents can really use, with lots of real-life examples. |
Contents
1 Styles of parenting and what really makes us the parents we are | 1 |
2 Kids can be born rotten and grow up even worse if we help them | 17 |
3 The family conference and other cases of adults acting like children and children forced to act like adults | 31 |
Too much selfesteem can be dangerous to our kids mental health | 45 |
5 Quality time is such a beautiful sham | 57 |
Distraction is not discipline | 71 |
How did a simple spank ever get confused with child abuse? | 83 |
Little tyrants at restaurants and other public places | 95 |
13 Helping our kids get the most from school without being too pushy | 163 |
14 The attention deficit in ADD is probably ours | 175 |
Adult in size doesnt mean adult in most other ways | 187 |
16 Diapers can be disposable dads are not | 201 |
17 Technology toys and tough parenting choices | 213 |
Lets lend a hand | 225 |
19 Ive never met an ideal parent but most of us do a prettydarngood job | 237 |
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