Making Families Work and What to Do When They Don't: Thirty Guides for Imperfect Parents of Imperfect Children

By Bill Borcherdt and Terry S Trepper

Book Overview

Making Families Work and What To Do When They Don't offers specific recommendations for increasing family harmony through more effective parenting practices. This important new book helps parents improve parent-child understanding and relationships by reducing the emotional interference--anger, betrayal, guilt, shame, and fear--that blocks healthier and happier family connections. Each chapter is laced with knowledge and therapeutic humor that examine dimensions to family living in a way that helps parents lighten up a little rather than tighten up a lot in dealing with their children. Parents will find that encouraging family members to take one another less seriously increases their opportunities for more constructive interactions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789000733
• ISBN13: 9780789000736
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 8.8"