X-Plan Parenting

X-Plan Parenting
Author: Bert Fulks
Publisher: Howard Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1982112018

Winner of the Gold Medal for Best Christian Family and Parenting Book of 2020 by the Illumination Book Awards The creator of the viral parenting concept the “X-Plan” illuminates the importance of awakening your child’s unique strength—while also taking an introspective look at your own life story to become a better parent. Last year, father and former teacher Bert Fulks’s simple parenting idea went viral: if your teenagers find themselves in a situation where they feel uncomfortable or trapped, they can text a family member an “X.” That family member will then call, giving the teen a way out, while still maintaining their freedom—and no questions will be asked. Now in X-Plan Parenting, Fulks expands on the how and the why behind his plan, emphasizing the importance of developing trusting relationships with our kids. Drawing on biblical principles, Fulks’s approach illuminates how even though we want the very best for our children, we sometimes parent from a place of brokenness and a desire for control rather than support and encouragement. We focus on our mistakes and painful growing up moments and the things we wish we’d had when we were kids instead of what’s best for our own children right now. This dynamic can pit kids against their parents and create rifts in the relationship. Fulks advocates for an alliance between children and parents instead of an “us vs. them” mentality. Rather than spending so much time coaxing or battling our kids, Fulks inspires us to work with our kids instead of against them. And rather than trying to right our own past wrongs vicariously through our children, he urges us to recognize where we need healing so we can provide authentic strength to support our kids’ unique journeys. There is a tender art to disciplining our kids, and X-Plan Parenting serves up laughter and tears, hard questions, and plenty of grace to moms and dads who want their kids to love God and lead passionate, joyful lives in an unpredictable world.

Parenting Your Out-of-Control Child

Parenting Your Out-of-Control Child
Author: George M. Kapalka
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1572244844

Step-by-step help for overcoming temper tantrums, arguing and defiance, bed- and bath-time resistance, problems getting ready in the morning, homework issues, and more. Includes bibliographical references.

Parenting Plan Evaluations

Parenting Plan Evaluations
Author: Kathryn Kuehnle
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2012
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0199754020

When conducting parenting plan evaluations, mental health professionals need to be aware of a myriad of different factors. More so than in any other form of forensic evaluation, they must have an understanding of the most current findings in developmental research, behavioral psychology, attachment theory, and legal issues to substantiate their opinions. With a number of publications on child custody available, there is an essential need for a text focused on translating the research associated with the most important topics within the family court. This book addresses this gap in the literature by presenting an organized and in-depth analysis of the current research and offering specific recommendations for applying these findings to the evaluation process. Written by experts in the child custody arena, chapters cover issues associated with the most important and complex issues that arise in family court, such as attachment and overnight timesharing with very young children, dynamics between divorced parents and children's potential for resiliency, co-parenting children with chronic medical conditions and developmental disorders, domestic violence during separation and divorce, gay and lesbian co-parents, and relocation, among others. The scientific information provided in these chapters assists forensic mental health professionals to proffer empirically-based opinions, conclusions and recommendations. Parenting Plan Evaluations is a must-read for legal practitioners, family law judges and attorneys, and other professionals seeking to understand more about the science behind child custody evaluations.

The Parent Plan

The Parent Plan
Author: Margaret E. Briem
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1456829912

The Parent Plan is the manual that every child should have come with. It answers such questions as “Why am I disciplining this way?” “When should I choose to discipline?” “How do I know . . . ?” The Parent Plan is not a situational parenting book dealing with specific ages, religions, and issues, but is “the big book of parenting,” guiding all parents in all situations. Whether you have teenagers or are hoping to conceive, this book helps to build skills and gain knowledge in becoming a confident parent who raises successful adults. The Parent Plan guides parents through actions of creating a plan to parent their children. This plan helps the parent in discipline, choosing activities, working with the community with regard to their child, and knowing when they are on or off course. Working their plan gives the parent confidence knowing they are making the right decisions for their child.

The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting

The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting
Author: Jenna Flowers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1440595208

A positive, mindful plan for children and parents in transition! If you're facing the challenge of raising children in two homes, you may be feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how to build a healthy coparenting relationship. With The Conscious Parent's Guide to Coparenting, you'll learn how to take a relationship-centered approach to parenting, foster forgiveness, and find constructive ways to move on when relationships change. Coparenting means putting your child's needs first. And conscious parenting acknowledges a child's thoughts, feelings, and needs, as well as a parent's responsibility to them. This easy-to-use handbook helps you to: Build a coparenting relationship based on mutual respect Lower stress levels for the entire family Communicate openly with children about divorce Discuss and reach parenting decisions together Protect children, meet their needs, and help them build resilience Educate your family and friends about coparenting The concept of ending a marriage peacefully, with compassion and respect for former partners, is often viewed with surprise in modern society. But choosing to consciously coparent is an important choice you can make for yourself and your children--one that will benefit the emotional health of your family for years to come.

Raising a Self-Reliant Child

Raising a Self-Reliant Child
Author: Dr. Alanna Levine
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1607743515

With this practical guide, parents can end daily power struggles with their preschoolers, toddlers, and infants and create more time for the family to spend on things that matter by encouraging early childhood independence skills. We’ve all heard the news about helicopter parents and boomerang children—but how can parents safeguard against these trends when our children’s lives are increasingly scheduled and competitive? Pediatrician Dr. Alanna Levine offers a commonsense parenting approach that avoids divisive strategies and helps parents find a balanced ground between overindulgence and strict control. Raising a Self-Reliant Child focuses on teachable moments where parents can instill independence, such as sleep time, toilet training, mealtime, and playtime. With Dr. Levine’s practical strategies and techniques, young children learn to take responsibility for their daily routines: babies learn to sleep through the night, toddlers learn to nap without their parents stretched out alongside, and school-age children learn to dress themselves and make breakfast with little parental intervention. Overprotection and micromanagement keep young children from the self-development that comes naturally from learning and doing on one’s own. And children who don’t learn independence skills at an appropriate age grow into adults who expect others to fix challenges and conflicts for them. Dr. Levine helps you break the cycle of daily power struggles so that you and your family will have more time to focus on the things that really matter.

Successful Parenting Workbook

Successful Parenting Workbook
Author: Jacqueline Rhew
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2018-09-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692157558

Brilliantly guides parents to take a look at their own experiences and to create a parenting plan that is not only unique to their family's needs, but also helps to provide a framework to create and implement their custom parenting strategies. A must read for any parent/caregiver! - Dr. Joanna Lindell, DO Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Parents quite rightly desire deep, long-lasting and loving connections with their children. In this exceptional workbook for all parents, Jacqueline Rhew and Robin Choquette teach parents ways to develop those deeper connections, highlighting strategies to raise resilient, confident and independent young people. The Successful Parenting Workbook is a hands-on guide designed to identify and create opportunities to better understand your current parenting strategies and your children, as well as create an individualized family plan. Inside this workbook, you will find: -Practical tools and tips, inventories, worksheets, assignments and strategies -Real-world example case studies and reflective questions -Step by step instructions on creating an individualized family plan Using this personalized, interactive and reflective parenting workbook, parents are guided to explore personal history, personality, and preferences that combine to create, intentionally and unintentionally, their current parenting strategies. Parents learn to establish goals that foster age-appropriate maturity in their children, identify current ineffective parenting, and create a new workable plan based on their identified family values. The workbook embodies a calm and confident approach which encourages each parent to develop specific strategies aligned with their child's emotional and cognitive development, resulting in more resilient, independent "future adults." Clinicians, consultants and presenters, Jacqueline and Robin are experts in their field, working to inspire children, adolescents and parents. Together, they have over 35 years experience working with professionals and parents. Jacqueline and Robin have conducted over 300 training sessions both locally and nationally on a wide array of topics relating to goal-directed parenting and resilient children. Their approach to purposeful parenting has helped thousands of families. They hope you, like so many of their training session participants, find The Successful Parenting Workbook a useful companion, and a resource you can turn to at any stage of your child's development. For more information, visit www.successfulparentingplan.com

The Collapse of Parenting

The Collapse of Parenting
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1541604547

In this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to navigate the obstacles they face In The Collapse of Parenting, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents abdicating their authority. The result is children who have no standard of right and wrong, who lack discipline, and who look to their peers and the Internet for direction. Sax shows how parents must reassert their authority - by limiting time with screens, by encouraging better habits at the dinner table, and by teaching humility and perspective - to renew their relationships with their children. Drawing on nearly thirty years of experience as a family physician and psychologist, along with hundreds of interviews with children, parents, and teachers, Sax offers a blueprint parents can use to help their children thrive in an increasingly complicated world.