The Seven Secrets of Successful Parents - Hardcover

Rolfe, Randy Colton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1462014488 ISBN 13: 9781462014484

Publisher: iUniverse, 2011

Synopsis

"Throughout her seven secrets, Rolfe models how parenting can be the most fulfilling work of our lives."
-Linda Aronson, author of Big Spirits, Little Bodies

Every parent has the innate power to be successful. But life can get in the way. It is hard to be at your best when you are tired, angry, rushed, surprised, preoccupied, or just too busy. But then you may have to deal with regret, frustration, or guilt, or a hurt or angry child.

In The Seven Secrets of Successful Parents, author and family therapist Randy Colton Rolfe shares the core attitudes which will prepare and empower you to be successful in any parenting situation. With her powerful approach of prepared, holistic, responsive parenting, you can master all these parenting goals and more:

• - Setting appropriate limits that stick
• - Promoting safe relationships
• - Inspiring learning
• - Nurturing your child's spirit
• - Rebuilding after negative feelings
• - Fostering good judgment
• - Venting parental frustration harmlessly
• - Resisting unhelpful criticism from outsiders
• - Encouraging your child to speak up with respect
• - Enjoying your child totally, without reservation

In The Seven Secrets of Successful Parents you will discover new options, helpful case histories, amusing anecdotes, valuable research, dialogues, and meditations to help you raise happy, healthy, productive children. Watch your parenting success grow!

About this title

About the Author

Randy Colton Rolfe is a family therapist. The author of four other books, she founded the Institute for Creative Solutions to share her parenting insights. Rolfe and her husband, Jay, live in Pennsylvania and California and raised two children. Visit her online at www.randyrolfe.com.

From Library Journal

Family therapist, lawyer, and mother Rolfe here presents seven rules for building good relationships between parents and kids: listening, faith, modeling, expression, celebration, attention, and letting go. Her advice is both basic and thoughtful, advocating giving your child fresh air and fresh food, spending quality time together even while doing ordinary adult things, and celebrating small occasions royally. Above all, Rolfe advocates faith?never giving up on your child. Based on a mix of case histories from her practice, her own experience, and research results, this is a very good guide to basic, commonsense child rearing. Highly recommended.?Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
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Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1462014488
• ISBN 13: 9781462014484
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 340