Your Child: It's Up To You! Respect Principles Applied Toddler to Teen - Softcover

Barbara Stratton

9780984363704: Your Child: It's Up To You! Respect Principles Applied Toddler to Teen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098436370X ISBN 13: 9780984363704

Publisher: Family Builders Press, 2010

Raising a child is not as much about doing the right things with your child as it is about being the right kind of parent! Your Child: It's Up To You! is the guidebook parents need to walk them through their children's developmental stages in the critical period of toddler to teen. It pairs the needs of their children at specific ages and stages with the corresponding parental strengths most effective for the stage. Your Child: It's Up To You! delves into a variety of practical techniques and solutions to problem-proof your child, insulating them from many common problems and reducing the typical troubles that most parents encounter. The result: you become an empowered parent. Your Child: It's Up To You! shows you how to become a Purposeful Parent - one who raises a child to be an adult who is responsible, productive, contributing and caring. It takes passion and a plan to raise a child in the 21st century. Now more than ever, being a parent is a tough job. Your Child: It's Up To You! equips parents with both the purpose and the plan. Just as blueprints are necessary in the construction of a building, this guidebook provides the family blueprint design and outline for constructing solid and dependable family relationships. No matter the family structure - a young couple joining in marriage, blended families coming together, or single or partnered parents struggling with a particular question, the challenges these families face are very similar. What often seems like an isolated difficulty is more typically a demand on the family to seriously consider its design - for parents to rely on their basic blueprint. A healthy, functional family builds a base solid enough to withstand a major blow, yet flexible enough to adapt to the changes and experiences of life. A family's blueprint is defined by, and typically only as good as the underlying principle it is founded on. Respect, defined as the act or attitude of attributing worth to another, serves as the essential property in healthy parent-child relationships or in any human relationship. Children whose parents have implemented respect in their relationship are better equipped to face challenges common to their developmental stage and unique to their life context. To respect another person means to esteem them. Self-esteem, which has become the all-important product in the current theory of child-development, is only possible with self-respect. Self-respect is the true self-esteem. A child's self-respect is the direct result of being respected by a parent or caring adult. Seven Principles of Respect are presented, each offering an explanation of its influence on healthy family relationships. Respect positively shapes and transforms children, adults, situation and environments. Respect is the solid, unchanging property that sustains the structure throughout all the childhood changes and developmental phases.

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About the Author:

Barbara Stratton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado, with almost 25 years of experience in private practice, specializing in couples and family relationships. Barbara earned both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Colorado in Boulder with her advanced training completed at the Colorado Institute for Marriage and the Family in Boulder, Colorado. In 2000, Barbara was awarded Therapist of the Year by the Colorado Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT), recognizing both ability and commitment to serve the field of marriage and family therapy. From 1993 to 1998, Barbara served a Governor-appointed position on the Colorado State Board of Marriage and Family Therapist Examiners. She is presently serving as President-Elect of CAMFT, is a Clinical Member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is credentialed as an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Practitioner. Barbara is proud to be a certified Disaster Mental Health Response Team Member for the American Red Cross. In that role, she responded to disasters in the U.S. from September 11, 2001 through the Katrina disaster of 2005, especially honored to have served a two-week assignment in New York City at the Family Assistance Center immediately following September 11. Barbara was the featured therapist in the January, 1997 issue of Ladies' Home Journal column, Can This Marriage Be Saved? and then featured again in the follow-up column, Was This Marriage Saved? in the November, 2003 issue. Complementing her professional experience is her life experience of building her family and raising two sons with her husband of 42 years. Blending her education, abilities and experience with her commitment to the health and well-being of families and children, Barbara demonstrates her passion through her writing, speaking and counseling work with clients. She is an experienced instructor and presenter and would welcome an invitation to speak at your event.

Review:

Your Child: It's Up To You! is an insightful and straightforward resource for parents seeking a positive and achievable plan for raising their boys and girls. This book motivates and empowers parents by weaving a keen understanding of the challenges facing modern-day families with proactive strategies and practical applications. --Michael Gurian, author of the two books, The Wonder of Boys and The Wonder of Girls

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