Table of Contents

Section 1. Understanding Your Role as a Parent

• 1.1 Understanding the family system as a whole
• 1.2 Recognizing traits in a healthy family
• 1.3 Identifying your role as the primary model for your child

Section 2. Developing Trust within the Family

• 2.1 Developing and maintaining trusting relationships within the family
• 2.2 Understanding attachment and bonding between parent and child
• 2.3 Rebuilding trust that has been broken
• 2.4 Parenting from a distance

Section 3. Communicating within the Family

• 3.1 Communicating effectively with children at all stages
• 3.2 Developing Digital Responsibility
• 3.3 Expressing and communicating feelings and emotions
• 3.4 Identifying family communication patterns
• 3.5 Communicating with children about sexuality
• 3.6 Dealing with anger in the family
• 3.7 Helping children learn to manage and resolve conflict peacefully
• 3.8 Defusing family disagreement

Section 4. Building Self-Esteem within the Family

• 4.1 Building and nurturing self-esteem in children
• 4.2 Knowing and valuing the child as an individual
• 4.3 Building and nurturing self-esteem in parents
• 4.4 Encouraging children's growth in social skills
• 4.5 Helping children learn to make healthy choices
• 4.7 Teaching children kindness and respect for other children
• 4.8 Helping children learn to handle competition
• 4.9 Understanding the powerful influences of gangs on children
• 4.11 Understanding the complexities of bullying and social cruelty in children
• 4.12 Building and Nurturing Social Emotional Learning in Children

Section 5. Understanding Parenting and Power

• 5.1 Establishing authority as a parent
• 5.2 Choosing effective discipline techniques
• 5.3 Giving children responsibility for themselves
• 5.4 Dealing with sibling rivalry
• 5.5 Encouraging motivation in children
• 5.6 Developing teamwork in a child's educational experience
• 5.7 Resolving homework issues
• 5.8 Understanding how parenting patterns in the early years set a course for the future
• 5.9 Building a powerful parenting role to prevent youth substance abuse
• 5.10 Recognizing and responding to child behaviors outside the norm
• 5.11 Raising children of character
• 5.12 Creating family memories: Traditions, rituals and routines
• 5.13 Raising a Financially Responsible Child

Section 6. Accepting and Growing through Natural Transitions in the Life Cycle

• 6.1 Understanding developmental stages in children
• 6.3 Dealing with stress in the family
• 6.4 Helping children handle peer pressure
• 6.5 Easing transitions into adolescence
• 6.7 Strengthening the father/child relationship
• 6.9 Parenting the second time: Grandparents rearing grandchildren

Section 7. Accepting and Growing through Unexpected Transitions in the Life Cycle

• 7.1 Coping with mobility and relocation
• 7.2 Helping children cope with change and loss
• 7.3 Growing through single parenting
• 7.4 Growing through step-parenting
• 7.5 Understanding the complexities of teenage parents
• 7.6 Balancing parenting and a career
• 7.7 Meeting needs in the family with a special child
• 7.8 Building resiliency in children
• 7.9 Creating cultural harmony in the family: balancing the challenges of bi-cultural parenting
• 7.10 Parenting to counterbalance outside influences: When pop culture collides with family values
• 7.11 Are our children growing up too fast?