Love and Power: How to Raise Competent, Confident Children

A practical guide to maintaining the delicate balance between love and power to raise capable, confident children… In order for children to blossom into competent, confident adults, parents must learn to use power rationally and constructively—both for control and discipline and in nurturing responsibility and self-esteem. This book is a synthesis of Dr. Austin’s 37 years of counseling parents and observing their successes and failures, problems and accomplishments. In it you will find a wealth of information on raising children infancy to the teen years, from including practical guidelines for:

• Setting and enforcing limits, without stunting confidence and creativity
• Instilling values while allowing sufficient freedom to explore and grow
• Dealing with anger, lying, guilt, manipulation, and other problems
• Coping with tough problems, such as single-parenting, drug abuse, peer pressure, and sexual abuse