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An enormously readable and infinitely practical book that explores some of the worst mistakes we can make, and guides us through examples and ideas on how to change.
Psychologists John and Linda Friel have written an enormously readable and infinitely
practical book that explores some of the worst mistakes we can make as parents, and guides
us through examples and ideas on how change can be effected immediately.
The Friels examine the seven most ineffective and self-defeating behaviors that parents
display again and again. Working from the ideas that even small changes can have big
results, the authors give parents concrete steps they can take to end these behaviors and
improve the quality of their parenting.
Whether you're contemplating starting a family, have children who haven't entered
school yet, are struggling with rebellious teenagers, or are empty-nesters wondering how
to be better parents to your grown children, you can't afford not to read this book.
With the same clarity and concrete examples that have sold over 350,000 copies of their
books, the Friels offer readers forty years of combined experience as practicing
psychologists, and fifty years of combined experience as blended-family parents. The
material in The 7 Worst Things Parents Can Do has been field-tested in the authors'
own household, with hundreds of their clients, and with thousands of their workshop and
Clearlife Clinic participants. It will cause immediate changes in your behavior, in your
child's behavior and will improve the lives you share together.
Chapter 1
The Seven Worst Things Parents Do
"What could turn intelligent, independent-minded adults into virtual wimps?"
Barbara Walters asked this question at the beginning of a recent ABC News 20/20
segment about small children tyrannically controlling their parents. During this valuable
piece of television journalism, viewers were subjected to videotaped scenes of a mother
climbing in and out of bed with her little child. For several hours, the child manipulated
the mother, bargained, sabotaged and pretty much ran the show, and Mom just kept playing
the game. We watched another child who had a whole cup filled with toothbrushes in an
obviously failed attempt to get the child to brush his teeth by giving him "choices."
We watched a child whine about wanting a can of soda with breakfast. Her mother said
"no," but her father almost immediately turned around and gave the soda to his
daughter "to keep peace." It's ...
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