BookWire’s “Year in Reviews Magazine,” December 2006 issue, lists a review of my book “Help Me With My Teenager! A Step-by-step Guide for Parents that Works.”
All in all a very positive review, the reviewer states: “Help Me With My Teenager!” speaks in a clear and understandable language directly to parents. Some techniques, such as stopping whatever you’re doing when your kid is ready to talk, will be difficult for already busy parents to implement. However, the extra effort promises to pay excellent dividends in form of a healthier, more supportive relationship.”
I never said it was easy or that no effort on the parent’s part is necessary. As a matter of fact, throughout my book I emphasize that parents will need to utilize a lot of self control and implement strategies before responding to their teen’s actions or questions. The statement “stopping whatever you’re doing will be difficult to implement for already busy parents” touches on one of the most important factors when it comes to parenting your teenager.
To put this issue into perspective, here is the following analogy:
Consider you are working for a large company, managing a department of several employees. You double task by managing your group as well […]
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It seems that the younger generation seriously have lost the art of communication. Yet how is this so, given that communication channels have moved on with technology, bringing us the mobile phone and email, which should, in theory keep us in touch even more than before?
Well, it’s true. We do have more options but what happened to old fashioned communication skills - you know the ones, talking and writing? Technological gadgets are no longer the domain of adults but of children. If it’s cool and electronic, they have it.
Mp3 players and iPods for their music downloads, electronic diaries and planners for their hectic social lives, mobile phones for that furious texting art, digital cameras and video to record their days and computers and laptops for emailing, photo sharing and more music downloads.
There have been reports that 224 children (unofficial figure) have been injured this year whilst walking and texting at the same time. It is impossible to see where you are going while you are feeding your addiction of texting useless information to your mates in words abbreviated to two or three letters that resembles a code your parents could never decipher.
Injuries have also occurred that can be attributed to […]
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It is difficult to describe what motherhood means to a woman. You can read thousands of books on parenting and children and think that you have a good idea of them but, when it really happens to you, your understanding is so far from what it is really like; there are no words to describe it. You need to have children to understand what a child is and what a family is!Children demand a lot of attention, care and love. A little one should be raised in loving surroundings; in an atmosphere of trust, sincerity and kindness.Every parent has their own idea of what constitutes good parenting. As for me, I trust that education starts in the mother’s womb. I started singing lullabies to my son, conveying not only the words, but the melodies and the strength of my love for him.I wanted to let him know how important he was in the world, how cherished he was and what a lovely world he had been born into. When he got a little bit older, I started to read him fairytales. I tried to choose the most riveting books; the most gentle fairytales ever. They had to convey thoughts on […]
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