You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! A Guide to Common Sense Parenting is a useful book from 1985. It gives good advice to parents, or those who are going to become parents. The book teaches the most troublesome aspects of parenthood. It is full of real awesome guidance. It restores parents’ confidence in themselves, so they are not confused by all the self-proclaimed experts and enables you to raise children in a way that is better for everyone. Raymond Guarendi has a doctorate. Do you think you could learn from this book?
Summary of the Book
In the book, which is 241 pages and should apply to everyone, you will learn, to avoid the causes of guilt, worry, and frustration; to calmly handle behavior that looks “abnormal” but is not; to give up unproductive tactics such as nagging, counting to three, and bribing so that you can discipline more quietly, fairly, and effectively; to end practices that are guaranteed to drive you batty, such as over reasoning, quibbling, and perpetual overseeing.
Dr. Ray Guarendi, nationally esteemed child psychologist and author. In a video you must see he is at his very best and funniest. Once appearing before a standing room only crowd, Raymond Guarendi delivered a non-stop 95-minute presentation about raising kids that left people believing that they too can be a better.
Witty and logical, the guide to the fifty of the Most Frustrating Discipline Problems will have you laughing and examining your own issues. The author takes fifty commonly asked questions presents common sense techniques to solve the most daunting challenges. This series of questions and answers, constructed from articles written by Raymond Guarendi, will surely touch you and help you in your own journey.
Stand strong and be what God designed you to be. The topics of the video are Out to Dinner Becoming Your Parent; The Difference Between Girls and Boys; There’s Still Time to Rename Her Christine Initials After Their Names Syndromes You’re Bigger Than They Are. Raymond Guarendi will leave you with nine important discipline is love in action good discipline is grounded in good sense. And good adults make mistakes (lots of them) and learn from them strong discipline is not complicated discipline is action.
7 Principles of Composed Parenting
- You are the expert on your child
- A relaxed parent is a better parent
- Confidence is the key to effectiveness
- Kids are more normal than adults think
- Authority belongs to parents
- Discipline is action, not words
- Responsibility is your child’s not yours
These principles are from chapter ten of the book. It is difficult to raise children, so we all need all that help we can get. This book offs good, funny, and practical advice. Although this book is as much about your well-being as it is about the well-being of your children. Raymond Guarendi says we all possess the most needed skill namely, that of common-sense.
Raymond Guarendi is a practicing clinical psychologist. He is the author of 12 books:
Being a Grandparent: Just Like Being a Parent … Only Different! (2018)
Advice Worth Ignoring: How Tuning Out the Experts Can Make You a Better Parent (2016)
When Faith Causes Family Friction: Dr. Ray Tackles the Tough Questions (2015)
Fighting Mad: Practical Solutions for Conquering Anger (2013)
Winning the Discipline Debates: Dr. Ray Coaches Parents to Make Discipline Less Frequent, Less Frustrating, and More Consistent (2013)
Marriage: Small Steps, Big Rewards (2011)
Raising Good Kids: Back to Family Basics (2011)
Adoption: Choosing It, Living It, Loving It (2009)
Good Discipline, Great Teens (2007)
Discipline that Lasts a Lifetime: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Kids (2003)
Back to the Family: How to Encourage Traditional Values in Complicated Times (1990)
You’re a Better Parent than You Think! A Guide to Common-Sense Parenting (1985)
Ray Guarendi has appeared on nationally syndicated United States television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and CBS This Morning, and is a regular on radio programs “Catholic Answers Live” and “The Doctor is In.” He also appears in speaking engagements in the U.S. for Catholic Answers. He also owns a TV show, “Living Right with Dr. Ray”, on EWTN. It is clear he is a prolific and well-regarded expert on raising children. He has ten of his own.
Conclusion
Ray Guarendi is definitely an expert from which everyone can learn. So, this book, despite its catholic slant, is recommended to everyone. This book should be of great interest as it will enable you to become more relaxed and easy-going. You should ignore the religious aspect of this book if it makes you feel better because it teaches valuable lessons.
