Raising a Loving Family

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Summary: Raising A Loving Family
Review: "Raising A Loving Family" offers sound, practical advice and skills training for families. The book comes out of over twenty years of experience teaching "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" to families in all economic circles. It reads easy and lays the skills out before you in simple language and real-life illustrations. My first exposure to the "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" was at Fort Knox, KY as an Army Chaplain in 1993. I attended an "Introduction to Family Wellness" at the Smart Marriages in July 1998, then attended the Family Wellness Instructor Training in September 1998. As the Family Advocacy Program Manager for the United States Army Recruiting Command, I was looking for a program that could be placed in the hands of our recruiters and their families across America - in big cities and small towns. The workbook for "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" met the need for those families that were very interested in developing healthy relationships and enhancing their communication skills. It required true desire on their part, because we are not able to offer the training to all recruiters and their families due to time and logistics. "Raising A Loving Family" 'answers the mail' for our families. It offers an excellent presentation of the "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" with real-life illustrations of the skills. It also includes worksheets and activities to help develop the skills. Just as I learn something every time I lead a "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" session, I again learned something as I reviewed "Raising A Loving Family". I wish I could put a copy of "Raising A Loving Family" in the hands of every recruiting family.

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Summary: Raising a Loving Family
Review: As a marriage & family therapist and school counselor, I highly recommend this book to clients and parents of students. The book describes a step-by-step process that gives struggling parents the practical skills they need to stop the confusion and chaos and move towards creating a happy, loving family. The techniques, while direct and simple, prove powerful and effective. I believe parents who begin using the principles and strategies described in this book will see immediate results.

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Summary: Raising a Loving Family
Review: As a marriage & family therapist and school counselor, I highly recommend this book to clients and parents of students. The book describes a step-by-step process that gives struggling parents the practical skills they need to stop the confusion and chaos and move towards creating a happy, loving family. The techniques, while direct and simple, prove powerful and effective. I believe parents who begin using the principles and strategies described in this book will see immediate results.

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Summary: Raising a Loving Family
Review: As a marriage & family therapist and school counselor, I highly recommend this book to clients and parents of students. The book describes a step-by-step process that gives struggling parents the practical skills they need to stop the confusion and chaos and move towards creating a happy, loving family. The techniques, while direct and simple, prove powerful and effective. I believe parents who begin using the principles and strategies described in this book will see immediate results.

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Summary: If you read only one parenting book, read this one!
Review: As a parent of three children (5 -7 -9)and a former teacher, I found this book to be very helpful and comprehensive. One basic premise of the book is that the marriage relationship is critical to a happy family. The authors also realize that most people have some of their own problems or isues to deal with and/or do not have extensive parenting education. Many chapters come with easy-to-do exercises that allow parents to do their homework, so to speak, on some of their own values and how they want to handle things in their own home. You will get more out of the book if you read it simultaneously with your partner, do the exercises, and discuss each chapter. The layout of each chapter has a nice consistent format: Summary of the key points, the actual information, with expansion through anecdoes, tips, and traps. I especially liked the traps: all of the things that could cause you to fail. Attention is also given to single parenting, divorce, special problems, and relationships with adult children. My favorite chapter: 'Parents are in charge' *Stick togethr *Make rules *Define consequences *Stay in charge If you like the no-nonsense format of the above ideas, you will love this book!

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Review: Hi. I'm Peggy Runnels, one of the authors of Raising A Loving Family. Virginia Scott, George Doub, and all of us at Family Wellness Associates hope you'll enjoy our book and you'll find many useful tips for your family.

In working with thousands of families over the past 30 years, we've learned that loving families provide stability and support, steadily and lovingly in the face of the many challenges of daily family living. They know how to handle their differences without blaming themselves or one another. They speak up, but don't fight dirty. They say what they need, listen to what others need, and work together to get the best deal for everyone. Many parents want to lead with love, but don't know how. These skills can be learned.

This book teaches parents to lead with love by setting clear rules and sticking together as they carry-through. It also teaches parents how to develop children's self-esteem through special listening; how to navigate through adolescence; how to work together with grandparents. Families--parents and kids--need clear, simmple skills to talk and listen to each other and solve problems together. They also need effective ways to deal with each other as well as raising children. Our book gives family members some easy to learn skills with everyday examples. We gather these skills and "healthy ways" into the three main jobs in family life--being a couple, parenting, and being children in families. For each of these roles, we give readers practical easy to learn tips that will build a loving family. Then, we add skills for handling change, solving problems, and teaching values so that the loving family is based on actions, not just words.