Using Your Values to Raise Your Child to Be an Adult You Admire - Hardcover

Heath PhD, Harriet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1884734499 ISBN 13: 9781884734496

Publisher: Parenting Press, 2000

Synopsis

Rather than using family, church, or school activities to inculcate values in children, Dr. Harriet Heath, a developmental psychologist and parent educator, argues that parents should instead look to their own values to guide their child-rearing decisions. She demonstrates how parents can identify their own values and deal with conflicting values (their own, their partner’s, or society’s) in order to influence their children in ways they see as important; eliminate failure and frustration in guiding and disciplining children by taking into consideration temperament, learning style, development, and basic needs; and provide their children with values that can enable them to leave a productive life. With their own beliefs as a solid foundation, parents can avoid destructive and inconsistent missteps.

About this title

About the Author

Harriet Heath, PhD, is a licensed developmental psychologist, a certified school psychologist, a parent educator, and the author of Fulfilling Lives: Paths to Maturity and Success. She is the founder of the Parent Center at Bryn Mawr College. She is currently on the faculty of DePaul University in Chicago.

Anna Dewdney is the author and illustrator of Llama Llama Red Pajama, Llama Llama Time to Share, and Nobunny's Perfect.

From the Back Cover

You can instill your values in your child! All parents have values, but few consider them when dealing with everyday situations. Even fewer parents think about how their values may affect their children 10 to 30 years down the road. The most effective way to instill your values in your child is to use your values to guide your parenting decisions day in and day out.

Reviews

Psychologist and parent educator Heath has written a unique parenting book. Rather than tell parents how to handle troubling situations, she asks parents to define their values and then deal with their children in a way that illustrates those values. Worksheets and exercises aid readers in identifying, analyzing, and thoroughly understanding those values. Using invented conflicts between parents and children, Heath also shows how different values could be used to handle specific situations differentlyAand how this will teach children those values. She also covers some aspects of child development and delineates the appropriate parenting strategies for differing age levels. There is a short list of other resources parents may want to use. Recommended for public and academic libraries.AElizabeth Caulfield Felt, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Parenting Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1884734499
• ISBN 13: 9781884734496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Dewdney Anna
• Number of pages: 176