They're Your Kids, Not Your Friends
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Book Description
Shirlee Smith is the single parent of five children and has been a foster parent to more than a dozen other babies. There's nothing theoretical or ambiguous about her parenting.
She has worked to give them all what they most needed - not a friend but a mother with real love and principles to last a lifetime. "I have been determined," she says, "to raise them to be responsible, productive citizens not caught up by the trappings of a society flaunting violence and materialism."
For her parenting is serious business. Everything is important including the music her kids listen to, the clothes they ache for and the friends they keep.
Now she shares what she has learned and what she has fostered in a highly readable, very down-to-earth book marked not just by practical wisdom, but by wit, warmth, challenge and encouragement.
About the Author
Shirlee Smith graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972, began her studies while raising five children. A former columnist for the Pasadena Star News from 1978 to 1998, she frequently wrote about her "common sense" approach to parenting. In 1997 Smith received several first-place awards for her columns from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. Currently, Smith is the host and producer of "Talk About Parenting" a nationally-syndicated television program. She also presents workshops and training sessions for parents. Smith, a foster parent, lives in Los Angeles.
They're Your Kids, Not Your Friends,Shirlee Smith,Sorin Books,1893732312,Anecdotes,Child Care/Parenting,Family & Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Parent and child,Parenting,Parenting - General
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