Parenting Is a Contact Sport: 8 Ways to Stay Connected to Your Kids for Life - Softcover

Joanne Stern

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929774222 ISBN 13: 9781929774227

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2009

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

As a psychotherapist, Joanne Stern, PhD, has spent more than twenty years counseling families, parents, and teens. She specializes in relationships, drugs and alcohol, eating disorders, and grief and loss. She has taught courses in parenting and is a popular speaker on relationship issues. A mom for more than three decades (including five years as a single mom), she lives in Aspen, Colorado, with her husband, Terry Hale.

Review

Sound advice on building a relationship with your children which is so strong it can withstand everything life throws at it. This wise book is a reminder that all of our interactions with our children are opportunities to build and maintain a close, honest relationship with them. -- Juno Spring 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1929774222
• ISBN 13: 9781929774227
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256