SURVIVAL
GUIDE FOR PARENTS:
How to Avoid Screwing Up Your Kids
Or Losing Your Own Sanity
The
book is easy and fun to read. It takes you through every step of parenting, from
infancy through the dreaded teenage years, to grown kids ready to leave home.
It's not complicated. It doesn't preach to you. But each of these short observations
has a great deal of substance. Some of them will make you laugh. All of them will
make you think. They will make you a better parent and help you enjoy the experience.
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Have you ever asked
yourself:
- What am I doing wrong?
- How can I teach my child
responsibility?
- What can I do about my
child's grades?
- How much freedom can I
safely give my child?
- How much should I try to
control his behavior?
- How do I deal with a rebellious
teenager?
- How can I find some time
for myself?
- Does parenting have to
be such a struggle?
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Mickey Michaels,
B.A., M.A., M.B.A.
Best-selling Author / HR Consultant / Parenting Coach / Life Coach / Award-winning
Speaker
Author Mickey Michaels has Master's degrees in both psychology and business. She
has been a divorced, single parent for over 20 years. She has lived the same struggles
you are facing. She combines her knowledge of psychology with her own experience,
in this book of simple but profound principles of effective parenting.
Contents:
Your first fears
Your next fears
Separation anxiety
Dangers of the toddler years
Single parents
Preserving your own mental health
Building your child’s character
Am I doing the right thing?
The struggle for control
Self-esteem
Chores and responsibility
Your room is a disaster!
Money and responsibility
Surviving the teenage years
The light at the end of the tunnel
Separation anxiety revisited
Excerpts:
About Babies:
Don't put your baby on a schedule you can't live with.
Babies can fall asleep anywhere -- unless you teach them that they require absolute
quiet.
Your baby won't sleep through the night until you are willing to let her.
Separation
Anxiety:
This is a phenomenon experienced primarily by parents.
Your child does not yearn for you every moment you are out of her sight.
Don't let this hurt your feelings, It's a good sign.
Children can't learn to be away from you unless you let them.
Your Room
is a Disaster:
- It will be a constant source
of conflict and frustration if you insist that a child keep her own room perfectly
neat and clean at all times.
- It's a matter of consideration
for others that everyone picks up his own clutter from the common areas.
- This does not apply to
the child's own room.
- You don't have to live
there. If you keep the door shut, you don't even have to look at it.
- The older your child gets,
the more the ability to control her own space becomes a central need for her.
- If you don't turn it into
a control issue, eventually your child will decide to clean up her own room.
- If you make it a power
struggle, she will resist no matter what.
Single Parents
- If you're trying to keep
a perfect house, lower your standards.
- If you're trying to be
Ward or June Cleaver, forget it.
- Ward and June Cleaver
never had to deal with the issues you do.
Choices, Decisions, Control:
- Choices make children
feel they have some control over their lives.
- Children who are given
some control feel less need to rebel.
- Let children make their
own mistakes and learn from them -- as long as the consequences aren't fatal.
Money and Responsibility:
- It's a parent's obligation
to provide a child with the necessities of life. The luxuries are optional.
- The parent gets to define
what is necessity. If the child wants more than that, she can pay the difference
with her own money.
- Shoes are a necessity.
Designer tennis shoes are a luxury. Stereos, TV's, VCR's, and CD's are luxuries.
A car of her own when the child turns 16 is a luxury.
Surviving the Teenage
Years:
- All teenagers think their
parents are hopelessly 'out of it'.
- All teenagers think their
parents are embarrassingly weird.
- All teenagers find it
humiliating to be seen in public with their parents.
- All teenagers would rather
be orphans -- except they need you to drive them to the mall!
Don't Take Anything Personally:
- Bizarre behavior and
total rejection are normal teenage behavior.
- If you hate the way your
teenager dresses, be grateful that she doesn't have green hair and a ring in her
nose.
- If she does have green
hair and a ring in her nose, bite your tongue and consider this a character-building
experience -- your own!!
- Keep your mouth shut!
The more you resist it, the longer she will cling to it. It will become a battle
for control that you cannot win by force.
- Once you give up control
willingly, she is then free to choose an appearance that is less bizarre.
- Your teenager's need
to rebel is in direct proportion to your need to control.
Buy it
for yourself * Give one to another parent
Perfect gift for Mother's Day * Father's Day
New Parents * Prospective Parents
Parents of teenagers or parents of kids who will someday be teenagers
This book became a Barnes &
Noble best-seller the year it was published.
Quote from
Barnes & Noble Store Manager:
“Your book has been
a great hit with our customers. Many of them saw it on the counter, picked it
up, saw something that made them laugh, bought a copy for themselves, went home
and read it, then returned to buy several copies as gifts. People love this book.”
Some readers
have called this book “Life’s Little Instruction Book for Parents.”
Others have called it “Erma Bombeck meets Dr. Spock.” It’s a
unique combination of substance and humor.
Consider buying
in quantity as a fund-raiser for your school PTA or any other group whose target
market is parents. Far more substantive and worthwhile than having your kids go
door-to-door selling candy!! Quantity discounts on large orders.
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