Designed for the traditional and nontraditional contemporary parents who want to regain control over their lives and their children, the primary goal of this book is to empower parents to choose the best tool for the job while challenging their personal values and beliefs about parenting and discipline. It equips parents with the tools needed to balance love and limits with there children, and includes over one hundred parenting tools, special information on dealing with grief and loss, anger and blame, and parental disagreement. It also provides the reader with exercises to determine their parenting values and beliefs, as well as a quick reference guide on how to handle the most common and most stubborn child behavior problems.
Ron Huxley is the founder of the ParentingToolbox and has helped parents improve their family life for over two decades!
He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist currently practicing on the Central California Coast. He specializes in trauma, attachment and nontraditional families (like divorced, step, and adoptive families). He is the author of the book "Love and Limits: Achieving a Balance in Parenting" and trains parents and professionals on a national level.
Ron believes in taking a strength-based approach to parenting that builds on solutions and not problems. He believes that the "person is not the problem, the problem is the problem" and he creatively crafts a parenting strategy that fits each family situation. He is a Certified Family Wellness Instructor, Incredible Years Parenting Instructor and he has advanced training in Play Therapy and Trauma Interventions.
Ron has spoken to parents on the importance of having a Balanced Parenting Styles and Secure Attachment in every conceivable setting, from a Women's Prison to Parent/Teacher Conferences to Corporate Board Rooms. He has written articles for Disney Family, Child Magazine, Readers Digest,Pregnancy Magazine, the Recovery Journal, Self-Help Online and Woman's World. He has appeared on numerous television and radio shows including BBC Radio, LA Talk Radio, the Leeza Gibbons Show, Parents Tool Talk Radio and Oprah.com. Currently, he is directing a children's mental health clinic in California that specializes in attachment and trauma issues for foster care and adoptive families.
"Ron Huxley has broken new ground with his ever-expanding toolbox full of strategies, information, and support life's issues. His is a unique method of providing long-term, affordable support for clients, bringing his insights as well as useful resources for all."
- Michael Fenichel, Ph.D.
