Parents are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. They want to create a loving family environment filled with mutual respect and cooperation... but they find instead that human nature and the influence of our culture combine to produce an atmosphere of anxiety, exhaustion, and far too much screaming. Perhaps you can relate! Whether you scream at your children or not, you no doubt feel anxious about them and their choices. You worry how they'll turn out. Unfortunately for parents, many of the techniques some experts present only seem to make matters worse. Hal Edward Runkel has discovered why: Parents are spending far too much time orbiting their lives around their children. They need to return the focus to themselves. They need to grow up and calm down. ScreamFree Parenting is about taming your reactive responses to your deep anxiety. Rather than learning new techniques, you'll discover the liberating principles, based on scriptural truths, that are inspiring parents just like you to revolutionize their family life. Principles that will enable you to remain cool, calm, and connected with your children, no matter what. Learn how to parent less out of your deepest fears and more out of the highest principles in ScreamFree Parenting. Special edition distributed through Christian booksellers.
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The title says it all:
Author Hal Runkel has hit upon an imaginative way to teach parenting: by stressing the need for parents to remain emotionally composed and self-controlled. If only all parents would see this light! Hal Runkel is a marriage and family therapist with a particular interest in raising well-behaved children. Yet instead of focusing on how to achieve behavioral control of the kids, this book attempts to change the behavior of the adults in the household. Every kid wants a "cool" parent, Runkel advises,... more info
Screamfree parenting truly works!:
Before I had children, I spoke in soft, lilting tones, rarely raising my voice above a lady-like whisper. The moment my children arrived on the scene, however, I witnessed how my vocal chords were suddenly in top form. It was alarming, really. Where did I gain my two-octave ability? By yelling at my kids. I swallowed hard. Yell? Scream? Pitch a fit? I'd done it like the best of them. It is not comfortable to admit this to you, nor is it an unnatural tendency to want to be louder than they... more info
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