Are Your Kids Driving You Nuts? How to Avoid Devastating Parent Traps

“Are Your Kids Driving You Nuts? – How to Avoid Devastating Parent Traps” is a comprehensive 115 page parenting resource manual that deals with the issue of "control" and the traps parents can fall into when attempting to control their child's behavior. Dr. Jones has a down-to-earth (down right funny!) approach that teaches the principles of correct parenting with humor and common sense.

You will find practical, easy to understand solutions to many common parenting problems--and they really work! These include:

1. Parenting Myths, Falsehoods and Lies: Good parents raise good kids; bad parents raise bad kids.

2. Freedom of Choice: Must man be free to choose, or should he be forced to do what's right?

3. Mission Impossible: Can parents always be in control of their children?

4. What is a Parent Trap? The harder you try, the harder you fall.

5. The Control Trap: The greatest pitfall and misconception parents have.

6. The Trap of Anger: The key to understanding why we get angry.

7. The Trap of Rage: What is the Rage Gauge?

8. The Traps of Arguing and Contention: How do you stop the contention and arguing in your home?

9. The Traps of Lying and Inconsistency: Are you lying to your children?

10.The Traps of Being Critical and Unforgiving: Discounting, shaming and rejection.

11. The Teenage Retirement Trap: How are you retiring your children?

12. The Rescuing Trap: How kids are set up to be at high risk for drug abuse and suicide.

13. The Lecturing and Insight Traps: Boring! Don't they already know 99% of what you'll say?

14. The Nagging Trap: Kids don't see nagging as counsel or support.

15. The Traps of Conditional Love and Acceptance: I will only love you if you do what I want.

16. The Parental Disunity Trap: A house divided against itself cannot stand.

17. The Quick-Fix Trap and Making Exceptions: Avoiding the real problem.

18. The Trap of Misusing Rewards and Punishments: Without a plan...without a clue.

19. The Trap of Excessive Punishment: The more you punish, the less effective it becomes.

20. The Trap of Favoritism: The temptation to love the easiest child more than the difficult child.

21. The Surrogate Spouse Trap: Emotional incest.

22. The Scapegoat Trap: Finding a safe place to vent our negative emotions.

23. The Traps of Guilt, Unrealistic Expectations and Perfectionism: The formula for shaming and failure.

24. The Trap of Button-Pushing and Overreacting: Are the kids punching your hot buttons?

25. Toxic Parents: Undisciplined Disciplinarians

26. Escaping the Parent Traps

27. The Healthy Parent and Functional Family

28. Peace and Joy in Letting Go

29. The Parables