Parenting is hard work. This book is about how to be really effective as parents & really get across to your children. For most of us, parenting doesn't come easily and there are no real training programs and no manuals that can show us what to do when. This book shows how to get your children to cooperate and behave by outlining practical guidelines about how to really love them on the one hand and set firm rules on the other. This books shows: Why the first 7 years in life are the most critical Why we seem to say the same thing to our children day after day and nothing seems to change How...

Parenting adolescents is one of the most challenging and hardest jobs around. What makes it even harder is that there are no real guides or training manuals to assist in this process of parenting. As parents, we feel helpless at times. We run out of ideas; of things to do; of ways to approach a situation. We also run out of patience. Why can't teenagers just do as they're told? Why do they always have to push the limits? Further, with all the changes that society is experiencing and all the stresses of life that confront us, the parenting role seems to be getting harder. It doesn't however,...