When Parenting Backfires: Twelve Thinking Errors that Undermine Parents Effectiveness (Thinking Your Way to a Better Life) - Softcover

Daniel Bates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997311509 ISBN 13: 9780997311501

Publisher: DB PRESS, 2016

Synopsis

Let’s be honest. Parenting is hard. From the moment children take their first breaths, parents are faced with decisions and choices that no manual could ever fully explain. And the way you parent is constantly changing: babies need protection, toddlers need direction, and teens need influence. We as parents are simply expected to do it and do it well. From two therapists who have a combined 25 years of experience working with families comes a new kind of parenting book. This book doesn’t focus on technique, a discipline scheme or parenting style. This book focuses on the parent themselves, specifically the kind of thinking that makes parents effective or ineffective. In "When Parenting Backfires" examines 12 thinking errors commonly made by parents. In each chapter Dan and David:•Explain the thinking error•How it backfires•What parents can do to correct the thinking error•And real life examples of parents who have recognized their thinking error, made the correction, and improved their effectiveness. Let this book do its work. Let down your guard and be open to the new ideas. The biggest risk you’ll take is to your ego as you improve your parenting skills and your relationship with your kids. I think any parent is willing to take those odds. Are you?

About this title

About the Author

I am called many things...honey, daddy, son, brother, counselor or even Doc David. Like you, I fulfill many roles in my life. Some days I do them well, other days not so much. Something that I do in all my roles is be creative.

Whether it's coming up with a unique way to spend time with my wife, creating a vacation to remember for my family or helping a couple or family find new ways to communicate, creativity and experience are important.

I have been in practice for 15 years helping families, teens and couples find ways to do life differently. Along the way I have become licensed as a Marriage & Family therapist and earned my Ph.D. in Psychology.

What keeps me going is my wife of 20 years and my 7 kids. If you find this page useful or informative please comment, share or drop me a question! Thanks you for stopping in.

Edition details

• Publisher: DB PRESS
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997311509
• ISBN 13: 9780997311501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 157