7 Skills for Parenting Success

Parenting is easiest and most successful when you're equipped with skills to handle today's unprecedented challenges. Winner of multiple awards, 7 Skills for Parenting Success provides detailed, complete instructions for using the methods shown by research to work best with kids of all ages. It suggests not only what to do, but also how to do it, what to say to kids, and what to do if things don't seem to be working. It also provides readers with what to expect from their children's behavior and abilities at certain ages. The authors clearly show how to build or repair relationships with children, deal with their temperaments, discipline effectively, and manage outside influences on kids, from friends to media. How to develop respectful behavior, responsibility, motivation, self-reliance, resilience, character, and emotional health in children are all clearly explained. It is written to be the only parenting book that most readers will ever need.