Family Rules: Raising Responsible Children
"A remarkable achievement! ... Kaye balances his advice on rules with an illuminating discussion of how you can build your child's self-image every step of the way--from infancy through adolescence. I heartily recommend this thoughtful, practical guide." -- T. Berry Brazelton, MD
Dust Jacket Summary:
Your 15-year-old keeps breaking her curfew.
Your 10-year-old won't do his homework.
Your nagging doesn't work, and you're losing your patience.
What will it take to bring peace to this family?
If you're tired of arguing with children and complaining about them, this is the book for you. Full of warmth and wisdom, this best-selling guide to parenting by respected psychologist and family therapist Kenneth Kaye explains how you can custom design for your own family a set of straightforward rules that make discipline easy-- rules which can be easily modified as family life improves.
With clever and insightful examples, Dr. Kaye explains:
- Why children need restrictions in order to handle freedom
- How to make rules-and how to enforce them
- How to build your child's self-esteem
- When to relinquish control of your child
- With special advice for single, step- and divorced parents!
In order to grow into happy, self-respecting adults, your children need the security of clear, consistently enforced rules. Family Rules teaches you everything you need to know to raise responsible children--without yelling or nagging!
List of topics covered (from the Index):
- abstinence
- adolescence
- adolescent curfew
- adolescent depression
- adolescent eating disorder
- adolescent grounding
- adolescent marijuana
- adolescent motivation
- adolescent punishment
- adolescent responsibility
- adolescents and marijuana
- adopted child
- adoption
- adoptive family
- adoptive father
- adoptive mother
- adoptive parents
- alcohol and children
- allowances for adolescents
- allowances for children
- allowances for teenagers
- anger at children (angry parent)
- anger in children (angry children)
- anorexia nervosa
- arbitrary consequences
- attention deficit
- attention in childhood
- attention problems
- authoritative parents
- bed wetting
- bedtime rule
- between parent and child
- bicycle rules
- blended family
- boys and girls (comparisons)
- bulimia
- child abuse
- child anger
- child behavior
- child competence
- child curfew
- child fear
- child management
- child motivation
- child psychiatry
- child psychologist
- child psychology
- child punishment
- child therapy
- childhood depression
- childhood eating disorder
- childhood fears
- children and alcohol
- children and divorce
- children and drinking
- children and drugs
- children and homework
- children and marijuana
- children and money
- children of wealth
- children's allowance
- children's behavior
- children's fear
- children's friends
- children's homework
- children's lying
- children's motivation
- children's punishment
- child's need for attention
- child's peer group
- clear parent
- clear rules
- clinging child
- communicating with children
- communication
- competent child
- consequences for children
- corporal punishment
- curfew for teenager
- custodial parent
- dawdling
- depression in adolescence
- depression in childhood
- discipline
- disobedience
- divorce and adolescents
- divorce and children
- divorce and teenagers
- divorce in adolescence
- divorced child
- divorced parents
- drugs and children
- drugs in school
- effective parents (effective parenting)
- elementary school
- enforcing rules
- Families Anonymous
- family communication
- family conflict
- family counseling (family counselors)
- family harmony
- family management
- family meetings
- family rules
- family therapy (family therapists)
- fears in childhood
- girls and boys (comparison)
- grounding a child
- grounding a teenager
- grounding an adolescent
- high school
- homework problems
- how to discipline
- irresponsible children
- kindergarten
- latchkey children
- learning disability
- limits on children
- listening to children
- logical consequences
- lying in children
- making rules
- marijuana and adolescents
- marijuana and children
- marijuana and teens
- misbehavior
- moral development
- motivation in children
- motivation in teens
- nagging child
- nagging parent
- natural consequences
- non-custodial parent
- nursery school
- overly permissive
- parent behavior
- parent effectiveness training
- parental authority
- parental power
- parental responsibility
- parenting self help
- parents' agreement
- parents' anger
- Parents Anonymous
- parents' authority
- parents nagging
- parents' power
- peer pressure
- permissive parents
- physical punishment
- praise for children
- praising children
- preparing children
- preschool years
- psychology of children
- psychotherapy for children
- punishing adolescents
- punishing children
- punishment for children
- responsible adolescents
- responsible children
- responsible teens
- rewarding children
- rules for teen driving
- self esteem
- sex education
- sex on TV
- single mother
- single parent
- social skills
- socialization
- spanking
- special children
- step-parent
- stuttering
- successful parenting
- tantrum
- teaching responsibility
- teenage behavior
- teenage curfew
- teenage drinking
- teenage driving
- teenage drugs
- teenage grounding
- teenage marijuana
- teenage motivation
- teenagers' use of cars
- teenagers' peer group
- thumb sucking
- toddler
- toilet training
- two-year-old
- underachievement
- working mothers
- written rules