How To Mess Up Your Childs Life

Author : Mary McHugh
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449448046
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Ruin Your Children's Lives written by Mary McHugh and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parent’s guide to giving wise advice, asking questions, encouraging good habits, and other ways to annoy their teenager. *Ask them about girlfriends or boyfriends in front of relatives *Run out on the basketball court with a first-aid kit if they’re hurt during a game *Fall asleep when your teen is telling you what Sue said to Jennifer and what Jennifer told Maryanne and what Karen did then How to Ruin Your Children’s Lives is a survival manual for enduring the transmutation of loving child to hostile teenager, and—with a little luck—maintaining enough sanity to one day hear those longed-for words, “Hey, I guess you weren’t so stupid after all.” Purple hair? Belly rings? Bizarre musical tastes? Not a problem as long as you have these nearly 300 tips and tactics close at hand. With resident teenagers slamming doors and screaming at the top of their lungs, “You're ruining my life!” parents should at least make certain they’re handling the job with poise.

Author : Jim Burns, Ph.D
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310353793
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Life with Your Adult Children written by Jim Burns, Ph.D and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including: My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong? Is it OK to give advice to my grown child? What's the difference between enabling and helping? What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home? What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood? How do I relate to my grown child's significant other? What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries? How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values? Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Author : Olivia Bruner
Publisher : FaithWords
ISBN 13 : 044654373X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Mess Up Your Child's Life written by Olivia Bruner and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2009-03-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are several people in life you don't want to hear say, "Oops!" Your barber, your mechanic, and your surgeon are three that come to mind. So do your parents and spouse. And yet, few of us put much thought into how we can create happier homes. Now, Christian parenting experts Kurt and Olivia Bruner have created a tongue-in-cheek but invaluable guide that helps parents move past "oops" to intentional, fun, and faith-filled parenting. In a way that keeps parents engaged amid the nonstop grind of jobs and household chores, the Bruners walk parents through the steps in creating a plan for infusing faith dynamics into the home.

Author : Orna Donath
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623171385
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regretting Motherhood written by Orna Donath and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research interviewing women from a variety of socioeconomic, educational, and professional backgrounds, sociologist Orna Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women currently are blocked off. She asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers. If we are disturbed by the idea that a woman might regret becoming a mother, Donath says, our response should not be to silence and shame these women; rather, we need to ask honest and difficult questions about how society pushes women into motherhood and why those who reconsider it are still seen as a danger to the status quo. Groundbreaking, thoughtful, and provocative, this is an especially needed book in our current political climate, as women's reproductive rights continue to be at the forefront of national debates.

Author : Alex Russell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118162579
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drop the Worry Ball written by Alex Russell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to avoid being a helicopter parent—and raise well adjusted, truly independent children In an age of entitlement, where most kids think they deserve the best of everything, most parents are afraid of failing their children. Not only are they all too willing to provide every material comfort, they've also become overly involved in their children's lives, becoming meddlesome managers, rather than sympathetic advocates. In Drop the Worry Ball, authors Alex Russell and Tim Falconer offer a refreshing approach to raising well-adjusted children—who are also independent and unafraid to make mistakes. In this practical sensible book, parents will truly understand the dynamics between parents and their children, especially the tendency of children to recruit their parents to do too much for them. The book also counsels that failing—whether it's a test, a course, or a tryout for a team—is a natural part of growing up, and not a sign of parental incompetence. Shows how to resist the pressure to become over involved in your child's life How to retire as a gatekeeper or manager of your child's life, and become a genuine source of support Build trusting relationships with teachers, coaches, camp counselors, and other authority figures—so they can play an effective role in your child's life Understand problems such as ADHD, anxiety, and substance abuse A guidebook for parenting courageously and responsibly—allowing your kids to be who they are while building structures that keep them safe—Drop the Worry Ball is a must for any parent who wishes to be and do their very best.

Author : Kurt Zimmerman
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781507618141
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Tips for Parenting Teenagers Or Who Messed Up My Kid? written by Kurt Zimmerman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HELP IS HERE! To the parent of a teenager, there are no sweeter words than these. Help is here! This book is the one I wish I had read 29 years ago, when my first child turned 13. Since then, I have parented twelve children careening through their teen years, the twilight zone period between thirteen and eighteen years of age. Whether you think of this time period as 'The Never Ending Story', 'Mission Impossible', or 'Walking Through the Valley of the Shadow of Debt', it is not only possible for you to survive your child's teenage years, but to build a solid adult relationship with them. This book contains 101 ideas that can help you navigate the teenage minefield! As parents, we think we always need to have the right answer, and have everything figured out. Then life happens. There is no way to plan a perfect response to the unexpected. It is essential to be hard on some things and soft on others. Confident, yet understanding. Accessible, yet discreetly invisible. You need to be as firm as a drill sergeant and as flexible as a yoga instructor. You need to use all of the experience you've gathered over the years, but never forget what it was like to be a teenager. Parenting teenagers is not for the faint of heart and nobody gets it right all the time. The good news is this: You are already an exceptional parent! In fact, I would guess that you are in the upper percentile of good parents! I say that confidently because you are taking positive measures to improve your parenting skills by shopping for books such as this. This book is by no means the tell all or end all of parenting books, but rather, a collection of useful tips from my nearly thirty years of parenting teenagers. I would also guess that you are already doing a lot of things right! We all make mistakes, and mine have been mercifully left out of this book, saved for another larger volume to be written later. Or not. 101 Tips For Parenting Teenagers Or "Who Messed Up My Kid?" will help you avoid some of the mistakes I made while you make YOUR journey through the teenage years. Whether you are a parent, a teenager, or an innocent bystander, it is my hope that you will find the following pages enlightening and (I hope) a little bit entertaining.

Author : Susan Garcia
Publisher : Susan Garcia
ISBN 13 : 9781513670287
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Positive Parenting written by Susan Garcia and published by Susan Garcia. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you tried different discipline methods but nothing seems to work with your child? Are you afraid that your child may have problems in the future if he does not receive good discipline now? Don't you know which strategy to use anymore? Are you going to give up? Keep reading... My name is Susan Garcia and a few years ago I was in the same situation as you. I am the mother of two wonderful children and thanks to my work as an educator and family counselor I have been in contact with thousands of children and parents throughout my career. The problem that happened to me most frequently is the fear of discipline. Discipline is always associated with something negative by parents. But this is not the case at all. Discipline is a good thing if you know how to use it. The first thing to understand is that there is a big difference between discipline and punishment. While discipline is essential to raising your child, punishment is not always the right technique to use. Today's children are growing faster, and the techniques that worked a few years ago today are no longer effective. You need something completely different, a new approach to educating children. Positive Discipline is just what you need. Positive disciplines completely changed my way of approaching children's education. Since I started using this technique with my children I have seen some incredible improvements in our relationship since the first few weeks. Later I also transferred my experience to my work and in a few years I achieved sensational results. Not only did the parents solve their daily problems quickly, but they improved the connection and communication with their children thanks to positive discipline. In this book I transferred all my experience on the revolutionary technique of Positive Discipline and the best way to apply it to everyday life In this book you will discover: All you need to know about positive discipline Why the old techniques doesn't work today Practical examples of daily life with children How to impose logical consequences without punishment How to improve communication with your child How to avoid most common mistake every parents make How to connect with your child How to raise a happy and disciplined children Being a good parent is easier than you think. Following this guide you will notice improvements in your family life in less than a month. This simple but comprehensive guide is fine even if you have already tried other methods in the past without good results. Suitable for both parents with young children (For Teenagers I have written another book that you should read) and to those about to become a parent. Stop being afraid for your child's future. Start now to build a relationship of trust, to improve communication and to understand how to correct his behavior. This way you will improve his self-esteem and prepare him for a successful life. Don't think about it too much. Scroll up and click "Add to Cart" RIGHT NOW!

Author : Jeffrey Bernstein
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 073821261X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liking the Child You Love written by Jeffrey Bernstein and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers proven strategies for taming toxic thought patterns of parents about their unruly children, and provides guidelines to improving the defiant behavior of children by changing one's own parenting mindset.

Author : Susan Stiffelman, MFT
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608683265
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenting with Presence written by Susan Stiffelman, MFT and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our children can be our greatest teachers. Parenting expert Susan Stiffelman writes that the very behaviors that push our buttons — refusing to cooperate or ignoring our requests — can help us build awareness and shed old patterns, allowing us to raise our children with greater ease and enjoyment. Filled with practical advice, powerful exercises, and fascinating stories from her clinical work, Parenting with Presence teaches us how to become the parents we most want to be while raising confident, caring children. “Shows parents how they can transform parenting into a spiritual practice.” — Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now “Clear, wise, soulful, and poetic.” — Alanis Morissette

Author : Elyse Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736933727
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Good Kids Make Bad Choices written by Elyse Fitzpatrick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is perhaps no greater fear in a parent's heart than the thought that a much-loved and well-cared-for child will make bad choices or even become a prodigal. What are parents to do in such circumstances? Authors Jim Newheiser and Elyse Fitzpatrick speak from years of personal experience as both parents and biblical counselors about how hurting parents can deal with the emotional trauma of when a child goes astray. They offer concrete hope and encouragement along with positive steps parents can take even in the most negative situations. Includes excellent advice from Dr. Laura Hendrickson regarding medicines commonly prescribed to problem children, and offers questions parents can ask pediatricians before using behavioral medications. A heartfelt and practical guide for parents.