Lighthouse Parenting Raising Your Child With Loving Guidance for a Lifelong Bond

Leading adolescent health expert Dr. Ken Ginsburg offers a road map for raising children for greater academic success, higher levels of emotional well-being, increased resilience, fewer behavioral risks, and reduced emotional distress. His lighthouse parenting action plan applies a balanced parenting approach that lays the foundation for the kind of relationship in which parents will be welcomed as a guide in childhood, throughout adolescence, and beyond. Lighthouse Parenting develops emotionally healthy children and adolescents who go on to have deep, enduring relationships with their parents for their entire lifetime.

Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, FAAP, practices adolescent medicine at Children’ s Hospital of Philadelphia and is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is the founding director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. His books include Congrats— You’ re Having a Teen! and Building Resilience in Children and Teens. He is the father of 2 young adults and lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Chapter 1: Families as the source of security, now and far into the future. Chapter 2: Building Lifelong Trust and Enduring Attachment Chapter 3: Sharing your calm. Coregulation as the root of security and the root of thoughtfulness. Chapter 4. Recognizing how your child is comforted. Chapter 5: Your Child Is Watching You: How you judge yourself and others tells them how safe it is to share their challenges Chapter 6: Being the reflection in your child’ s eyes Chapter 7: Human Role Models are Imperfect Chapter 8: You don’ t have to be the only model, create meaningful connections Chapter 9: Seeing all that is Good and Right in Your Child: The Measure They will Always Use to See Themselves Chapter 10: The best communication: Your unwavering presence Chapter 11: Parenting for Optimal Influence: Balance the expression of your love with the wisdom of your monitoring Chapter 12: Listen more than you talk; Create a Judgement-free zone for shared wisdom Chapter 13: Talk wisely, learn more Chapter 14: Honoring Emotional Expression Now as the Roots of Lifetime Protection Chapter 15: Hovering Drives Children Away: Preparation is the Best Protection Chapter 16: Protection against Undermining Expectations: Anticipating adolescence as an opportunity to celebrate Chapter 17: Steer them away from the Rocks, While watching from a distance Chapter 18: Everyday Discipline: Always Teaching, But Ready with Corrective actions and Course Corrections Chapter 19: Human Connection: The Core ingredient of both resilience and human thriving Chapter 20: Resilience 101: The Foundations of Resilience Chapter 21: Resilience 201: Preparing Our children to Live in an Uncertain World Chapter 22. Resilience 301: Becoming (a bit more) comfortable with discomfort Chapter 23: Resilience 401: Framing help- seeking as a strength Chapter 24: What does it mean to Thrive?: Raising Children Prepared to Do and Be Good Chapter 25: People thrive when they know that what they do matters Chapter 26: People endowed with curiosity and a growth mindset thrive Chapter 27: Living life with gratitude and a generous spirit is core to thriving Chapter 28: People thrive when they Can Think for themselves but know they have so much to learn from others Chapter 29: People thrive when they can draw Strength from their Cultural Wisdom and Family History Chapter 30: From Toddlers to Teens: Supporting Their Need to Stand on Their Own Chapter 31: Communication and Other Real Life Skills Chapter 32: Influence you can trust, being able to assess misinformation and personal or virtual pressure