You are trying to be a brilliant parent, but life’s busy and although your kids are the biggest priority in your life, you can’t do everything.
If only you knew what things will have the biggest impact and make the most significant difference to your children’s life.
What will make the difference to how they turn out as people? What should you be doing with them, showing them or teaching them to give them the best chance of being happy and well balanced? What are the values, skills and life lessons that you must absolutely instil in them? What’s the best use of your time together?
The 10 Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Children will help to relieve the worry by giving you very clear, objective advice on what you should be doing to secure a happy and healthy future for your children. If you concentrate on getting these 10 things right, you can be confident that you’re doing everything that really matters.
Each of the ten chapters of this incredible book is packed with sound principals, practical techniques and clever tactics that will equip you with all the vital skills you need to get your children safely from childhood to the end of their teens and beyond.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
- Make their world solid
- Give them some magic
- Show them how to separate right from wrong
- Teach them to think
- Let them lead you
- Forget quality time
- Make sure you see the wood and the trees
- Teach them the value of money
- Show them that broccoli can be fun
- Give them each other
Conclusion
About the Author :
Roni Jay is widely admired as an instinctive parent who handles tricky child issues with wisdom and inspired thinking. As an author and publisher specialising in parenting books she has been responsible for popular and acclaimed titles such as Babies for Beginners and Pregnancy for Beginners. Roni is the mother of three children and step-mum to another three.
Review :
"Three cheers for Roni Jay, who has written a sensible antidote to this rose-tinted vision of parenthood." Daily Telegraph, September 2008.
"Roni Jay's new book is a simple guide to what's important and what's not. It's not intended as a quick fix, but it's a very wise (and easy) read." Daily Telepgraph September 2008
"makes you think about how you might: teach your children to think, the value of money, the importance of living healthily and happily" - Angels & Urchins
"I would recommend anyone read this... book that will give you the confidence to help your children grow into people you will be proud of and love uncondintionally for the rest of your life"- Western Morning News, December 2008 (readership 98,000)
