Like modern businesses, we parents are pressured to do more with less. Attending to work, home, kids, spouse, friends and self-care seems to require more and more from us each year. We run-and-gun just to get the required stuff done, and so often find that we don’t have the time to complete everything that we want to. When reflective we wonder: am I doing right by my kid(s)? How can I and him and her and us thrive given how crazy busy we are?
Our pressured state also facilitates confusion about how to respond to an overwhelming array of rapidly developing cultural forces (e.g., the internet, the increasing frequency of traumatic events around the world, the overexposure of sex in the media, the pounding of a 24-hour news cycle, etc). How do we find the balance between protecting our children and letting them learn how to be effective in the world?
Allow me to be your parenting efficiency manager. In this book I will give you 10 specific strategies for making the most of your time and efforts with your child. These step-by-step strategies will allow you to maximize the positive impact of your parenting efforts, provide you with strategies for coping with confusing cultural forces and reduce the guilt that you’re not doing enough for your child. Each of the 10 strategies I am recommending in this book are deeply rooted in the best scientific evidence on how to promote child wellness; I will also try to share these strategies with you in a way that will make you laugh, touch you and leave you knowing that I live and understand your concerns as a parent.
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