The X-treme Parenting Makeover Workbook

by Jill Abilock Breaking out of the self-esteem trap requires a radical shift in thinking that will allow us to challenge and change our fundamental attitudes and beliefs about childrearing. The X-treme Parenting Makeover is intended to facilitate that shift by restructuring parenting strategies and goals within the framework of interdependence a framework that recognizes our shared humanity and need for each other as the key to a happy, healthy self. When we embrace interdependence, we discover that love, patience, compassion, and generosity, for others and for ourselves, flow easily. The message we send our children changes from "you are the center of the universe" to "the universe is the center of you," and in learning to respond to it, they gain autonomy, resilience, and self-esteem.

·     X-Treme Parenting Makeover Introduction: Page 1
X-Treme Parenting Makeover Introduction: Page 2
Session 1: Your Kid is Not King
Session 2: Real Life is Disappointing
Session 3: Autonomy is the Goal
Session 4: Don't Feed Kids Junk Praise
Session 5: Resilience Comes From Being Flexible
Session 6: Talent & Creativity Require Patience
Session 7: Kindness & Generosity Bring Happiness
Session 8: Good Character Wins
Session 9: Your Relationships Set the Example
Session 10: Belonging Means Contributing
Session 11: XPM table (in session order)
Session 12: XPM table (in chapter order)

Parents, Being Ordinary is Special

Kids today feel entitled to every advantage and unwilling to make the leap into adulthood. As Polly Young-Eisendrath makes clear in this brilliant account of where a generation has gone astray, parents trying to make their children feel special are unwittingly interfering with their kids' ability to accept themselves and cope with life. Clarifying an enormous cultural change, THE SELF ESTEEM TRAP shows why so many young people have trouble with empathy and compassion, struggle with moral values, and are stymied in the face of adversity. Young-Eisendrath offers prescriptive advice on how adults can help kids-through the teen and young adult years-develop self-worth, setting them on the right track to productive, balanced, and happy lives.

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Digital Mothering

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