Parenting with Purpose: Five Keys to Raising Children with Values and Vision - Tapa blanda

"Bob Reasoner and Marilyn Lane's "Parenting With Purpose" is the most deeply insightful parenting handbook I have seen. It smartly grounds the process in a parent's own sense of self, identity, and self-esteem, and in that parent's awareness regarding the values and virtues they hope their child will grow up to embody. In fact, it amounts to a blueprint for the most healthy and valuable parenting--parenting from the inside out!" --Senator John Vasconcellos, California State Senate
Winner of an iParenting Media Award in the 2007 Best Products category

"Offers warm and readable suggestions to help you reach your parenting goals in a mindful and deliberate way. Here are simple and practical ways to build your children's internal controls and self-discipline, while encouraging the development of all those wonderful qualities you want in your children." --Jane Bluestein, PhD, author, Parents, Teens and Boundaries

"[These] ideas are based on solid theory and offer sound, effective ways for [doing] what matters most: raising our children to become capable and competent human beings. I'm certain that this outstanding guide will become a valuable resource for parents. It's certainly a most-needed one." --Michele Borba, ED, author, Building Moral Intelligence and Don't Give Me That Attitude!

Drawing on years of research and experience, this innovative guide explains how to develop desirable personal qualities—such as self-motivation, self-esteem, and compassion—in children of all ages. By developing these traits early in life, children are much more likely to grow into self-sufficient, responsible adults. More than 50 enjoyable activities are provided that allow parents, grandparents, and caregivers to foster such advantageous attributes in children with ease. Specific chapters cover how to work with gifted children and children with learning or behavioral handicaps, and special attention is given to the needs of foster parents in facilitating the personal development of foster children.