Team-spirited Parenting (ebook)

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A renowned husband and wife team shows you how to develop your natural ability to improve every aspect of your child’s life

Informative, compassionate, and inspiring, Team-Spirited Parenting is more than a guide to parenting. It shows you how to become the best parent–and person–you can be. With the Hopsons’ expert guidance, you can renew your spirit and powerfully shape your bond with your child. Affirming your potential to be more joyful and effective, you will discover how team spirit works on all levels of your parenting experience.

In their workshops, private seminars, and extensive practice as psychologists, the Hopsons train parents to become true partners in raising children. Now you can learn the Hopsons’ proven principles, skills, and techniques. These are the tools you need to remove the hidden roadblocks that shut your child off from valuable relationships and limit your ability to listen, assert yourself, resolve conflicts, and work out problems.

Inside, discover the essence of parenting success and learn how to:

• Make peace with the past
• Make peace with your partner
• Communicate compassionately
• Reach out to your village
• Direct your child’s behavior
• Nurture the sibling bond
• Acknowledge peer pressure
• Allow time for spirituality and joy

Full of inventories, checklists, real-life exercises, and the down-to-earth strategies that have already helped thousands of parents, this book offers all parents the powerful message that you are not–and should not be–alone in raising children. Whether you are divorced, married, never-married, or a single parent, Team-Spirited Parenting is an indispensable resource that will show you how to effectively create the nurturing family environment your children need to thrive.

DARLENE POWELL HOPSON, Ph.D., and DEREK S. HOPSON, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologists who head the Hopson Center for Psychological and Educational Services in Connecticut, are the authors of five books, including the bestselling Different and Wonderful and Friends, Lovers, and Soul Mates. They have been consultants to Disney Online and Mattel Toys and are on the Advisory Board of Child magazine.0Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Make Peace with the Past: The First Principle.

Make Peace with Your Partner: The Second Principle.

Communicate Compassionately: The Third Principle.

Reach Out to Your Village: The Fourth Principle.

Direct Your Child's Behavior: The Fifth Principle.

Nurture the Sibling Bond: The Sixth Principle.

Acknowledge Peer Pressure: The Seventh Principle.

Allow Time for Spirituality and Joy: The Eighth Principle.

Index.