Even well-meaning parents can, through lack of awareness, neglect their children s most basic needs. And neglect can take many forms from overindulgence to lack of communications. E. Kent Hayes has spent a lifetime working to advocate for children and their family. He has gleaned those lessons into this guidebook that explains how to avoid trouble before it starts and how to:
Instill the value of delayed gratification in children who want it now
Create a flexible day-to-day structure
Talk with a noncommunicative teenager
Balance permissiveness and discipline
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