The Everything Parents Guide To Raising Siblings Tips to Eliminate Rivalry Avoid Favoritism And Keep the Peace Everything Parenting and Family
April 28, 2009 by Parent Tips · Leave a Comment
They bicker. They tease. They compete. They can drive you crazy. If you’re one of the many parents desperate for peace in your household, look no further than The Everything Parent’s Guide to Raising Siblings. With this unique handbook, you’ll learn how sibling relationships develop over time, the factors that affect these relationships for better or for worse, and how to resolve the issues that provoke conflict.
Expert author Linda Sonna, Ph.D., offers you practical advice for bringing up trustworthy, dependable, cooperative children who view their siblings as equals, rather than competitors.
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A hands-on primer for any parent with two or more children, The Everything Parent’s Guide to Raising Siblings helps you help your children build strong bonds that will last a lifetime.
Parenting Is a Contact Sport 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life
April 28, 2009 by Parent Tips · Leave a Comment
Parenting Is a Contact Sport 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life
Build a relationship with your children that’s so strong, nothing will sever it. From toddlerhood to teen years and beyond, you can make ‘real’ contact with your kids, forming an unbreakable bond that makes you the person they want to share with and gives you the opportunity to guide and counsel them in every phase of their lives.
In Parenting Is a Contact Sport, you will discover how to:
- Communicate openly with your kids and create a connection that will weather anything life throws your way
- Help your children learn from their experiences, even through the storms of adolescence, by using effective discipline
- Stay in touch with the realities of your kids’ lives so you can continue to talk with them, even when they’re dealing with such important issues as sex and drugs
- Increase the influence you have over their choices and behaviors so that, even when you can’t be there, they use good judgment
- Develop mutual trust and respect that improves your kids’ self-esteem and brings joy and laughter into your home
Praise for Parenting Is a Contact Sport:
‘This is exactly the kind of book I wish I’d had when I was raising my two kids. Simple concepts made easy by a double pro. Brava!’ –Linda Ellerbee, author of Take Big Bites and executive producer of Nick News
‘Without jargon or scolding, this book shows you how to build and live a resilient and vibrant connection with your kids and step kids.’ –Joe Kelly, author of Dads and Daughters: How to Inspire, Support and Understand Your Daughter and The Pocket Idiot s Guide to Being a New Dad
‘Parenting Is a Contact Sport is that valuable, wisdom-packed book that is always there for you as you navigate the challenges of parenthood.’ SuEllen Fried, founder of BullySafeUSA and coauthor of Bullies, Targets & Witnesses: Helping Children Break the Pain Chain
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars A Safe Haven
Above all, Dr. Joanne Stern advocates an emotional safe haven for children. By teaching parents how to keep an open line of communication with their children, Joanne promotes a welcoming and non-judgmental atmosphere for establishing enduring parent-child relationships. Truth and trust are paramount. But, equally comforting is the message “Don’t even try to parent perfectly-just do the best you can…” Enjoy the book!
5 Stars A great resource for parents and pediatricians
A friend recommended this book to me as a new mom of a baby daughter. But as a pediatrician, I was surprised to discover that it also offered truly helpful insights for my job by suggesting some successful strategies for communication with kids and teens. Parents often come to pediatricians for parenting advice, and I would definitely recommend this book to help them tackle issues with children of all ages while building and maintaining important parent-child relationships.
5 Stars Healthy Communication = Healthy Families
I have witnessed first hand Dr. Joanne Stern’s relationship with her adult daughters and can verify the parenting methods that she shared in her book “Parenting is a Contact Sport” do work! I was also a single mother raising three daughters. How I wish I had the common sense, patience and compassion my good friend and colleague possessed during those difficult years, and before.
As a marriage and family therapist, I realize the importance of good communication within families. Starting with young kids and continuing the dialog throughout their lives prepares adults to use their skills in work, marriage and in many other venues. How much we need good talking, listening and openness on a global scale in the difficult times we live in.
Joanne’s book is a must read. I will share it with my adult daughters and will recommend it to my clients. Bless you Joanne Stern for “Parenting is a Contact Sport” - a loving book that is needed and is very topical!
5 Stars Great!
I’ve been criticized on more than one occasion for not making it through the first chapter of multiple parenting books. I find myself picking this one up during breaks and evenings purely out of enjoyment. The author’s honesty of it all is what I think I appreciated most about it. This book will leave you nodding your head with a smile, and you’ll learn a ton in the process!
5 Stars A Nurse’s Observation
As a former psychiatric adolescent unit nurse, I was amazed thinking how a complicated downhill spirling life for my patients could have been turned around if their parents would have read this book and applied these simple principles.
