Making Families Work and What To Do When They

Making Families Work and What To Do When They Don't offers specific recommendations for increasing family harmony through more effective parenting practices. This important new book helps parents improve parent-child understanding and relationships by reducing the emotional interference--anger, betrayal, guilt, shame, and fear--that blocks healthier and happier family connections. Each chapter is laced with knowledge and therapeutic humor that examine dimensions to family living in a way that helps parents lighten up a little rather than tighten up a lot in dealing with their children. Parents will find that encouraging family members to take one another less seriously increases their opportunities for more constructive interactions.

Introduction	p. 1
Say It Ain't So: Forty-One Irrational Beliefs of Family Living, with Rational Counters and Commentary	p. 7
Examining Your Child's AQ (Appreciation Quotient): Facing and Accepting Ingratitude	p. 25
The Role Model Fallacy: De-Sacredizing the Copycat Philosophy	p. 31
Communicating Better and Getting Along Worse: When and Why It's Better for Family Communication to Draw a Blank	p. 37
When It's Cruel To Be Kind: The Mistake of Linking Favorable Regard for Your Child to Human Worth	p. 45
Never Deprive a Child of the Right to Go Without	p. 53
The Door Swings Both Ways: When Children Double Bind Their Parents	p. 65
Fifteen Unmannerly Actions That Represent Responsible Parenting	p. 71
Minding Less When Your Child Doesn't Mind	p. 83
The Merits of Extracting Emotional Dependency from the Parental Equation	p. 89
With Kids Like That, You Don't Need Enemies	p. 103
Eating Humble Pie: Guaranteeing Your Child Opportunity Without a Guarantee of Success	p. 107
Why Treat Children the Same When They Are All Different? Individualism Reconsidered	p. 113
Aspire and Inspire: Do It Yourself, Hire Someone Else To Do It, Forbid Your Child To Do It	p. 119
The Real ME-Coy: Implications of Fraudulently Living Your Life Through Your Child	p. 123
Doing to Your Child vs. Failing to Accept What Can't Be Done for Your Child	p. 129
Is Behavior Gone Unnoticed Really Less Likely to Occur? What the Behavior Modifiers Fail to Tell You	p. 133
Nature vs. Nurture in Children	p. 137
Is Blood Really Thicker Than Water? Loyalty, Love, Obligation, and (Dis)Agreement in Family Relationships	p. 143
Having a Sense of Humor in Proportion to What Ails You as a Parent	p. 151
Questioning the Advisability of Unconditional Parental Love	p. 157
You Can Lead a Child to Water But You Can't Make Him Drink: Thirty-Four Guidelines for Effective and Efficient Parenting	p. 161
The Ugly Duckling Syndrome: How to Duck Around and Over it	p. 175
When Baby Makes Three: Children As Intrusion	p. 181
The Ultimate Childhood Daydream: Being Able to Order Parents on a Silver Platter	p. 185
When It's Good to Set a Bad Example: Learning Manners from Those Who Have Few	p. 189
Parenting Is a Nice Place to Visit, but Inadvisable to Stay: Working Yourself Out of a Job While Retaining Its Joys	p. 193
Haven on Earth: Protecting Yourself from the Oppositional-Acting Child	p. 199
The Only Golden Rule of Parenting	p. 205
Wiles of My Own Parenting to Date	p. 211
Index	p. 217
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Making Families Work and What To Do When They Don't: Thirty Guides for Imperfect Parents of Imperfect Children

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