Pre-Hysteric Parenting: The Frazzled Parents' Guide to Harmony in the Home - Softcover

Wright, H. Norman

9780781436885: Pre-Hysteric Parenting: The Frazzled Parents' Guide to Harmony in the Home

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0781436885 ISBN 13: 9780781436885

Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub, 2001

As parents today, we love our children. We help with homework, set up play groups, and shower our kids with gifts. Our children are often the center of our lives, our homes, and our schedules. As a result, today's children are often hurried, frustrated, ungrateful, and indulged. And confused parents are asking "When did we lose control?"

In this timely book, H. Norman Wright helps parents discover a better way of loving-a way that is both biblical and down-to-earth. By practicing the principles he outlines, parents can bring harmony to their homes and move toward the final goal of raising responsible, loving adults.

H. Norman Wright, a Gold Medallion winner, is the author of over sixty books. He is a marriage and family counselor and former professor at the Talbot School of Theology and Biola University. He and his wife, Joyce, have been married for over forty years and live in Long Beach, California. Norm and his wife are the parents of a son and a daughter.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Those Christian parents who would spare the metaphorical rod should first consult this draconian but thought-provoking book, which challenges them to stop indulging their children and teach responsibility instead. Wright comes down hard on America's love affair with consumerism (the "affluenza" epidemic), and also asks parents to carefully consider each activity their children undertake. He rightly observes that many parents are so frazzled and exhausted from hauling kinds around in a minivan that they often miss opportunities to spend unstructured quality time with them. Wright makes some simplistic overgeneralizations about the 1950s ("these children knew nothing but the good life," he asserts), and his indictments of contemporary culture can be too stark. Overall, however, he raises some excellent points here.

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