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Effective Parenting -- Without the Power Struggles

As parents, you have only a few years to prepare your children for a world that requires responsibility and maturity for survival. That thought alone can send shivers down your parental spine! So what do you do?

According to Jim Fay, one of America's top educational consultants, and Dr. Foster Cline, a trend-setting child and adult phychiatrist, parents who try to ensure their children's success often raise unsuccessful kids. Responsibility is like anything else - it has to be learned through practice. If you want to raise kids who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control - without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.

1. Parenting: Joy or Nightmare?
2. Mission Possible: Raising Responsible Kids
3. Responsible Children Feel Good About Themselves
4. Children's Mistakes Are Their Opportunities
5. Setting Limits Through Thinking Words
6. Gaining Control Through Choices
7. The Recipe for Success: Empathy with Consequences
8. Lights, Camera, Parenting!
9. How to Use Love and Logic Pearls (Sample of Selection)

• Allowances/Money
• Chores
• Discipline in Public
• Friends
• Getting Ready for School
• Grades, Underachievement, and Report Cards
• Homework
• "I'm Bored" Routine
• The Internet
• Lying and dishonesty
• Nasty Looks and Negative Body Language
• Peer Presure
• Picking Up Belongings
• The Room: Keeping It Clean
• Television Watching
• Toilet Training
• Video and Computer Games
• Whining and Complaining
• Appendix A - The Three Types of Parents
• Appendix B - Turn Your Word into Gold: The Art of Enforceable Statements for the Home