Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a practical, easy to read guide for parenting good kids in today's crazy, digital world. Our kids are constantly bombarded with information--especially as teens. This book highlights the importance of fundamentals like good values, decision making, confidence builders and other things that our kids need to grow up successfully. This book is for new parents, parents with young children, parents planning on having children and parents with teenagers. There is even a chapter in the book on the important role of grandparents. Full of real life examples, this book will help parents when faced with tough decisions. Parenting is not easy and our world is getting more complex. As parents, we must do everything possible to keep our kids safe and help them grow into happy, productive, kind, compassionate and successful adults. This book has tips for keeping kids away from drugs, bullies, and other negative influences. It also has tips for what to do when kids get smart phones, start driving and how to handle peer pressure in today's data-driven world. It is a call to action for parents to "be the parent not the pal" and help set boundaries and expectations that will help our kids navigate this information saturation of today's world. Our kids need our wisdom and experiences more than ever to grow into successful adults. Also highlighted in this book is the need to teach our kids the art of communication--eye contact, hand shakes, proper manners. Kindness and compassion are a key theme and development of good "people skills" is a sought after characteristic in life as well as the workforce. We live in a very diverse world and a culture that pulls our kids away from their core values. As parents, we must teach our kids that being a good and honorable person is more important that doing whatever it takes (cheating, lying) to win. Parents who read this book will be glad they did and will enjoy the humor in some of the stories found inside.
