Take Back Your Kids: Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Childhood may be changing, but todays cable-ready, all-too-worldly kids are still just kids and should be treated that way. William J. Doherty does not want to recreate childhood as it was in simpler times, he merely wants to help parents adapt to the changes and create an even better future. Dohertys new book, Take Back Your Kids, offers a blueprint to do just that.
Too often, Doherty believes, parents merely provide services and opportunities for children, who in turn consider themselves "consumers of parental services." Hierarchy has diminished. Parents regularly make sacrifices in time and money they perceive to benefit their children. Take Back Your Kids shows occasionally saying no to a childs wish, denying a costly and time-consuming opportunity, allows for more meaningful family moments together at meals, church services and volunteer activities.
Take Back Your Kids gives parents a clear picture of what they should expect from themselves and their children. Doherty describes the skills necessary to be a confident parent--the importance of firm boundaries on behavior, an understanding of when to be flexible, and the courage to express constructive anger and endure the consequences. A good parent may be unpopular from time to time, but children respect and appreciate the exercise of authority in the context of loving family relationships.
Doherty concedes that maintaining those relationships may be difficult amid modern media distractions and fractured families. Take Back Your Kids describes how to monitor media exposure in a culture of constant television and Internet-literate eight-year-olds. He explains why responsible fatherhood may be the most untapped resource in raising children. And he offers advice for co-parents, single parents and step-parents alike to transcend their individual situations and discover the path to loving, respectful and productive relationships with their children.
From the Back Cover
"We may be the most child-sensitive generation of parents the world has ever known--and the most confused and insecure."
But it doesn't have to be that way.
We can be both sensitive and in charge.
William J. Doherty, Ph.D. shows you how. Take Back Your Kids is a timely, confidence-building book that backs up fresh insights with personal experience and advice you can rely on.
Take Back Your Kids shows how to protect children from the me-first, consumer culture by giving them the love and limits they need. I recommend this wonderful book without reservation. Laura Schlessinger Host of the "Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show" and author of Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives
Doherty is clearly a guy who has been around kids and parents. His stories are fresh and apt, his writing is clear and entertaining. His work helps harried and confused parents-which is all of us by now-raise well-adjusted, productive kids.
Mary Pipher
Take Back Your Kids: Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times
Take Back Your Kids: Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times,William J. Doherty,Sorin Books,189373207X,Child Care/Parenting,Child rearing,Christian Life,Christianity - Christian Life - General,Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Parenting,Parenting - General,Peer Pressure,Advice on parenting
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