The Rules of Parenting

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The Rules of Parenting

This book has been translated by Jarir book store

There are lots of wrong ways to bring up your kids, but there are lots of right ones, too.

There’s no list of instructions you have to follow to the letter if you don’t want your child to end up a loser.

The Rules of Parenting presents the principles to follow which you can adapt to suit you and your children.

Beginning with the first rule “Relax” and continuing through 100 rules, this book presents a guide to everything a parent needs to know from toddling, school, boyfriends or girlfriends, through driving lessons and college.

The book begins with a section that covers the most important rules, The Rules for Staying Sane.

The rest of the sections cover the some of the big questions of parenting, including the Attitude Rules, the Discipline Rules, the Sibling Rules, the School Rules, the Teenage Rules, the Crisis Rules, all the way up to the Grown-up Rules.

Until the birth of our fourth baby, Martha and I really thought we knew everything it took to be good parents. After all, we were already raising three boys, and their needs had always been easy to identify and satisfy.

In fact, I was starting to suspect that parents in my pediatric practice who complained about their demanding, temperamental babies were exaggerating.

Then came Hayden. With her, our job descriptions as parents were turned upside down.

If Hayden wasn’t constantly in-arms or at-breast, she was crying. We tried all of our old tricks—nothing worked.

“I can’t put her down” became Martha’s mantra. What quickly became clear was that this baby needed constant connection in order to be happy.

Our old parenting style just wasn’t going to cut it. By forcing us to reevaluate and reshape our ideas of parenthood, Hayden taught us what being a parent is really all about. And it all comes down to just eight golden rules.

The Rules of Parenting

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