The Family First Workbook: Specific Tools, Strategies, and Skills for Creating a Phenomenal Family

ISBN-13: 9780743280730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str.

Dr. Phil McGraw

Opis

In Dr. Phils #1 New York Times bestseller Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family, he gives parents courage and a solid understanding of the principles for making your family phenomenal. Now, with The Family First Workbook: Specific Tools, Strategies and Skills for Creating a Phenomenal Family, Dr. Phil puts you to work practicing purposeful parenting, walking you through scenarios and exercises in which you and your family will act on these proven principles to build pride, unity and hope for the future. Youll master a host of concrete, in-depth tools for raising happy children who approach the world with integrity, honesty and respect. Dr. Phil wants to help parents get their priorities back in order by putting family at the center of their lives. Families dont have to suffer through mediocrity because of parents who dont communicate and children who act out because they arent receiving the right balance of guidance and discipline. You can shape your household into a functional, supportive, stimulating and safe place -- a place that you and your kids are happy to call home. With innovative individual and group exercises, challenging self-appraisals, a Daily Intention Journal, specific guidelines on managing conflict, special material for divorced and blended families, and much more, the workbook will show you how to be the best role model, guide and advocate for your child. Dr. Phil makes you ask yourself the hard questions, and he reveals the hard truths. You are raising Americas future; you must invest the time and energy to do it right. The reward -- a happy, fulfilled home life that lets your children thrive -- will be well worth the work.

Spis treści

Contents

Letter to Parents

PART ONE: CREATING YOUR PHENOMENAL FAMILY

1 Family Matters

2 Special Strategies for Divorced and Blended Families

3 The Five Factors for a Phenomenal Family

4 Your Family Legacy

5 Your Parenting Style

6 Powering Up

PART TWO: 7 TOOLS FOR PURPOSEFUL PARENTING

7 Tool 1: Parenting with Purpose: Define Success

8 Tool 2: Parenting with Clarity: Talk, Listen and Learn

9 Tool 3: Parenting by Negotiation: Partner with Your Child

10 Tool 4: Parenting with Currency: Performance and Payoffs

11 Tool 5: Parenting Through Change: Shake It Up to Break It Up

12 Tool 6: Parenting in Harmony: Put Your House in Order

13 Tool 7: Parenting by Example: Walk the Talk

Epilogue

Appendix

Bibliographical References

O autorze

McGraw, Phil
"Dr. Phil" (Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D.) is the host of America's number-one daytime talk show and is perhaps the most well-known expert in the field of psychology and human functioning in the world today. In his 16th year on television and his 11th year of the Dr. Phil show, he has devoted his international platform to delivering common sense information to individuals and families seeking to improve their lives. Passionately pursuing such topics as family functioning, domestic violence, anti-bullying, addiction and the myths of mental illness, he works tirelessly both on and off the air. Dr. Phil has carried his message from the senate chambers of Washington, D.C. to the suburbs and inner cities across America. He and Robin, his wife of 38 years and counting, along with their "wonder dog," Maggie, reside in Southern California, as do his two sons, Jordan and Jay, along with daughter-in-law, Erica, and two grandchildren, Avery Elizabeth and London Phillip.