Why Good Parents Have Bad Kids

By E. Kent Hayes

Book Overview

Even well-meaning parents can, through lack of awareness, neglect their children's most basic needs. And neglect can take many forms--from overindulgence to lack of communications. E. Kent Hayes has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385243529
• ISBN13: 9780385243520
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great book about parenting!

Aside from the title, this book is great. Kids, as the author points out, aren't inherently "bad" and I think many parents who could benefit from this book won't pick it up because their kids aren't "delinquents." Anyway, I liked the messages and it was an easy read...why hasn't Hayes written more?

Best Parenting Book Ever

I picked up this gem of a book in a used bookstore and will state without a doubt that this is the best most insightful book that I have ever found on parenting (and I have read many). If you are a frustrated parent, find this book.

Sensible and Entertaining

I've gotten this book from the library before, and now that I've discovered I can buy my own copy I'm going to order one--it's a great parenting guide.The unusual slant of this book is that E. Kent Hayes based much of his advice on what he observed when creating foster homes as part of his job. These were not your usual foster homes--they took groups of six or more unrelated kids who were in such bad shape that they were not good candidates for the standard foster home system and put them into family groups, each with a married couple to serve as parents and to live with the kids full-time in a home bought especially for this created family. Obviously the people in charge had to learn what good parenting qualities looked like in order to hire people who could not only handle these kids, but could turn them around and give them skills needed to become happy, productive adults.My own baby has started screaming so I'll end here, but I think it's a great book and I'm eager to read it again.