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RAISING A RESPONSIBLE CHILD: How to Prepare Your Child for Today's Complex World

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There are so many parenting books that don't help parents respect their children. This books gives practical advice on how to respectfully raise children who are responsible. It was well written with many practical ideas.

It takes a courageous and secure parent to try this, but it does work. It came from trial and error, what worked is what is recommended in the book. The basic philosophy comes from Alfred Adler, but the book is not philosophy, but rather a practical implementation that basically comes from Rudolf Dreikurs Children: The Challenge : The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations--Intelligent, Humane & Eminently Practical (Plume) Dinkmeyer adds a bit of philosophy about egalatarian relations, but make no mistake about it, the parents are in charge here, they just have to listen. The gist of the Parenting with Love and Logic Books also came from Adler via Dreikurs. Dinkmeyer et al also put out the STEP parenting books, but those books are so simplified that they are not too useful. This book is useful, but beware, the parent may have to start doing something differently, but that different thing will be easier than constantly struggling with kids (or with a spouse for that matter)

Something about having "family meetings" and letting a child decide what the family should do for fun doesn't strike a cord with me.