Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids Author: Vicki Hoefle | Language: English | ISBN:
B009G476QW | Format: EPUB
Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids Description
There’s a new set of 3Rs for our kids—respect, responsibility, and resilience—to better prepare them for life in the real world. Once developed, these skills let kids take charge, and let parents step back, to the benefit of all. Casting hover mothers and helicopter parents aside, Vicki Hoefle encourages a different, counter-intuitive—yet much more effective—approach: for parents to sit on their hands, stay on the sidelines, even if duct tape is required, so that the kids step up. Duct Tape Parenting gives parents a new perspective on what it means to be effective, engaged parents and to enable kids to develop confidence through solving their own problems. This is not a book about the parenting strategy of the day—what the author calls “Post-It Note Parenting”—but rather a relationship-based guide to span all ages and stages of development. Witty, straight-shooting Hoefle addresses frustrated parents everywhere who are ready to raise confident, capable children to go out in the world.
- File Size: 2251 KB
- Print Length: 288 pages
- Publisher: Bibliomotion, Inc.; 1st edition (August 21, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009G476QW
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,270 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Vicki Hoefle, through her parenting program, Parenting on Track, and her book, Duct Tape Parenting, guides parents and those who offer direct services to families down a life-altering path toward peace. Vicki is changing the world one parent, one child, one family at a time.
Pre-Vicki, I was preoccupied with how my family looked on the outside. Was my kid the bully? What did my sons' behaviors and choices say about them or about me as their mother? If my five year old hit me in public, my response came from a place of anger, shame, worry, self-doubt. I might grab whatever he hit me with. I might yell. I might lecture. Post-Vicki, though, I take a deep breath. I enjoy my kids instead of enduring them. I realize that my sons' worth is not the sum of their actions. I see "misbehavior" as an opportunity to learn, to change course, to reconnect with my boys. There is work to do. A lot of work to do. But, change comes not from the reaction but from the preventative actions taken to connect with our kids and help them grow into the people they were meant to be.
Parenting is as timeless as human civilization. In an age where bestsellers include titles such as Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Judith Warner 2/7/2006) and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Amy Chua 1/11/2011), we continue to be a culture obsessed with getting it right by our kids and, more precisely, discerning what "right" is. With so many "expert" voices to turn to, how do parents determine what program, book, or philosophy might really hold the answer to how to cultivate and maintain deep, connected relationships with their children? No matter how busy our lives become, no matter how constant the stream of external influences, parenting remains one of the most important jobs to do well.
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