Synopsis
All parents wonder if they're making the right decisions with their kids and teens. They fret over behavioral issues, and they often feel inadequately prepared or ill-equipped to deal with challenges that arise. Parenting coaches Sheila Dinaburg-Azoff PsyD, a pediatric psychologist, and Joan L. Reynolds MS, a learning specialist, offer a fresh message for parents seeking answers and advice: YOU are the best expert when it comes to parenting your own child.
The authors wrote this workbook to help parents gain confidence in their own intuitions, and to use their knowledge and wisdom to answer the important question, "Why do I make the choices I make?"
Parenting in Your Own Voice doesn't tell you how to parent your child. Instead, it guides you in a step-by-step process to discover more about yourself and your child. You'll get to see your child from multiple new perspectives, including personality traits, learning styles, intelligences, and creative talents. Armed with this newfound information, you'll have the confidence to parent your child, your way.
Over the course of 12 chapters, designed to be worked through either individually or in a parenting group, you'll create the building blocks to assemble a customized parenting plan, a blueprint based on your individual values, parenting priorities, and insights you've gained about the needs, strengths, and character of your own child.
Exercises, self-assessments, child assessments, and "Try This" activities bring the authors' messages to life and turn this into a hands-on learning experience for parents.
About the Author
Joan Reynolds MS is a parenting coach and reading specialist who earned her master of science from Bank Street College. For more than two decades, she has worked with children and families in her specialty, and has been a guidance counselor, school learning consultant, and child advocate. In addition, Joan has helped build libraries in low-income communities, taught nutrition and cooking with mothers and children, and conducted weekly story hours for children and parents. Most important, Joan is the mother of a 31-year-old daughter, a role she continues to grow in. She has had a lifelong interest in helping children reach their potential and believes the best way to help a child is by helping their parents.
Sheila Dinaburg-Azoff PsyD is a parenting coach and holds a doctorate in pediatric/school psychology from Yeshiva University, Ferkauf School of Psychology. For more than two decades, she has worked in hospitals, schools, and clinics running parenting groups, counseling parents and children, and conducting evaluations of children. She has made numerous presentations to parents and professionals on such topics as Therapy with Children, Children and Mourning, Child Development, Self-Esteem, and Parenting Preschoolers. In her view, parents are the experts regarding their children. She has found that through focused discussion, parents can draw upon their insights to expand their understanding of their child. As the mother of two daughters, ages 20 and 24, she continues the learning adventure of being a parent.
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