Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting: Proven Ways to Build a Healthy and Happy Family

by Michael H. Popkin

Book Overview

An easy and fun way to make active parenting ideas a part of your family's daily life. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880283824
• ISBN13: 9781880283820
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Active Parenting Publishers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The prescription for better parenting and happier families.

Parents who feel lost at times and wish that there was a handbook to help them communicate better with their children, will be pleased to find "Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting." This book teaches parents many things: it discusses how to communicate better with children, how to be a better listener and ask the right questions, and how to avoid anger by better expressing yourself and enforce the positive. In addition, it teaches more effective ways to discipline, how to be a better teacher, how to help your child feel better about themselves, and how to be a better parent and overall family. There are 52 weeks of parenting lessons, and each one includes an activity so parents can try out and keep track of their newly-learned skill. You can read and concentrate on one lesson per week, practice it with your family, and see how they respond. Or, you can browse through the 52 lessons and choose one or more to learn at a time. However you decide to use the book, readers are sure to find a wealth of knowledge. MyParenTime.com highly recommends this book -- the lessons are simple, easy to understand and implement, and include a variety of activities geared toward helping families be the best they can be.

Offers week-by-week family activities ideal for parents and children of all ages

Michael "Doc Pop" Popkin, Ph.D., one of the nation's foremost parenting experts who has appeared on CNN and "The Oprah Winfrey Show", Doc Pop's 52 Weeks of Active Parenting offers week-by-week family activities ideal for parents and children of all ages. Each is designed to promote parenting, family bonds, and just plain fun. Sample activities include learning how to listen actively to one's child, share stories from family history, monitor television and computer time, adopt games that make math and science everyday play, and more. Simple worksheet diagrams will help spur and structure such positive activities. The techniques may seem deceptively simple at first glance, yet have been tested and proven to promote good parenting skills and quality family time. Highly recommended.