A golden rule book to parenting best practices, What Great Parents Do concisely presents key strategies to help parents reshape kids' challenging behaviors, create strong family bonds, and guide children toward becoming happy, kind, responsible adults. What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive science to distill the best information about parenting today into bite-size pieces with real examples, useful tips, and tools and techniques that parents can apply right away. This book will show you how to do what great parents do so well, including: - Great parents start with empathy - Great parents accept their kids just as they are - Great parents avoid power struggles - Great parents see the goal of discipline as learning, not punishment - Great parents know they aren't perfect A toolbox of the most effective parenting strategies, What Great Parents Do is accessible, actionable, and easy to follow.

Raising Great Parents shows parents how to define long-range goals for their family and then reach those goals through LRB -- love, respect, and belief -- creating an atmosphere and a set of principles that together move parenting past power struggles over getting out the door in the morning and into bed at night. Full of real-life examples, this comprehensive book covers such topics as: Your Attitude Makeover: Parenting with Love, Respect, and Belief "I Said Turn Off the TV": From Power Plays to Collaboration It's Your Default: Why Parents Act the Way They Do Ain't Misbehavin': Why Kids Act the Way They Do Stop Flogging a Dead Horse: Why Punishment Is Self-Defeating And the book helps parents dial back competitive expectations for their children -- and themselves -- by learning how to: Truly listen to their kids Encourage, rather than judge, their kids Transcend bribery and threats so they and their children can become a team of collaborators who enjoy one another in the midst of the joys and trials of life as they all grow together Raising Great Parents includes a before and after parenting self-assessment and numerous exercises focused on specific parenting challenges.

In a friendly, accessible style with interesting anecdotes and real-life stories, the authors distill the wisdom of a wide range of people from various economic and ethnic backgrounds into six key elements that will help parents raise self-confident, life-loving, happy children.

"From changing diapers to playing chauffeur, it's easy to spend so much time and energy on your kids that at the end of a long, exhausting day, you have nothing left for your spouse. Too often, being a great parent comes at the expense of having a great marriage. In 'Great Parents, Lousy Lovers', relationship experts Dr. Gary Smalley and Ted Cunningham, authors of 'From Anger to Intimacy', show you that it is possible to be a great parent and a great lover. This book will help you and your spouse to begin reinvesting in your marriage--not just your children--because the best foundation for great parenting is a happy, healthy marriage. Filled with wit, wisdom, and practical advice, 'Great Parents, Lousy Lovers' will help you move from a frustrating, fatiguing, out-of-balance, kid-centered marriage to a strong, life-giving, fulfilling, couple-centered relationship" --Cover, p. 4.

Do you ever find it hard to remember how you ever found the time to have your kids in the first place? Do you ever find yourself completely sapped with exhaustion, but still feel as though you haven't done half the things you needed to get done today? Imagine reading this job advertisement in a newspaper: POSITION AVAILABLE PARENT, full-time: long days, seven days a week, some time off in the evenings. While no previous experience is necessary, the applicant must demonstrate the following. *You must be a kind, considerate person. *This position requires a competent self-starter with excellent communication skills. *Must be able to provide an atmosphere of love and support. *The ability to be adaptable and flexible is essential. *Strong leadership skills an advantage. *A willingness to put yourself second is required. *Entertainment skills will be highly regarded though great talent in this area not essential. *Must be able to work with limited supervision and be on-call 24 hrs a day. *Current driver's licence would be an advantage. *Duties include: cooking, cleaning, teaching, nursing, social-working, psychology, conflict resolution, driving, buying, selling, managing, entertaining, general administration and washing the dog. Although this is a non-paying, voluntary and life-long position, a modest salary package of joy, laughter and affection is included to help prevent you from walking out. Sounds familiar? Well, Great Ideas for Tired Parents is a book for you. Whether you are a working, at-home, single, married or step parent, Michael Grose has designed this guide to help you reclaim some of yourself and your time in order to feel better within yourself and actually be a better parent too. Great Ideas for Tired Parents is full of practical ideas and examples of how to take control over the way you live - and prevent the demands of others from completely swamping you. Michael Grose takes tired parent readers through these essential parenting how-to's: *How to recharge your batteries and maintain yourself as a person *How to deal with a partner who has a different approach *How to keep your cool in a crisis *How to talk and become friends with your children *How to get children to help *How to know what's a real worry and what's a myth *And how to enjoy your kids and your life! He provides easy to use strategies that really work, even when you feel right at the end of your tether.