It Takes a Parent to Raise a Child

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Summary: A new monumental, breakthrough book on parenting
Review: From the Publishers: Carefree Press It Takes A Parent.....To Raise A Child Robert E. Ripley, Ph.D. and Marie J. Ripley, M.A. ISBN 0-962-1133-9-5 This book contains what parents want to know about raising their children to be successful, effective adults. This is a monumental, practical, easily readable, unique, breakthrough parenting book. The authors are experts with both knowledge and experience, as compared to most writers on parenting. Dr. Ripley earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Child Psychology. He was a university graduate school merit professor and taught at such prestige universities as the University of Minnesota, Iowa State University and Arizona State University. Marie Ripley has earned degrees in Architecture, Art Education and a Masters Degree in Guidance and Counseling. She has been a classroom teacher, home designer and builder and president of their consulting firm. They have been consultants to international Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Office of Education and Department of Labor as well as state departments of education and labor, public, private and parochial schools. They are active parents and their children are now 22 and 24 years old. They home schooled one of their children for three years. What is different from most other parenting and child development authors is: they have been there and done that. They have extensive research, writing and practical hands on experience. They are also international, award winning authors. A large portion of the analysis of the successful, effective adults is based on their own research of thousands of adults in many occupations over a 30 year period of time. This book is unique in that 95% of the content is original, has not appeared in other books and yet contains the material that parents and educators have been wanting answers and discussion about. This book can help reduce teen pregnancies, child abuse, child and teen violence and the creation of unsuccessful adults who are a burden to themselves a! nd society. The book is 520 packed pages where the total parenting areas are broken down into 11 Dimensions with 192 Factors. All topics in the book are cross referenced with related topics, so the reader can begin anywhere and will be referred to other areas in an easily readable manner. The book also contains more of the "Marie says", one mother's opinion and comments about their children's growing up. These are scattered throughout the book, having first become so popular in the Your Child's Ages & Stages books. The book also contains, in Appendix A, a new theory and practical approach of how children and adults learn. The authors have titled it Levels of Learning, and anticipate that it will be a great aid for teachers and parents. In Appendix B, the authors also present a condescend guideline titled Personal Empowerment And Personal Success. Every parent needs to read this to have the knowledge of the known original components of personal success. Then to complete the process of this "must have" book, the authors finish with a complete matrix correlating this work with their three child development books. In the development of the child from birth through age 18, various combination of facors are most critical at any one stage for creating a successful, effective adult. This book, along with their other currently published book: Your Child's Ages & Stages: 0 to 6 Year Old: The Basic Imprinting Stage and their forthcoming books this year; Your Child's Ages & Stages: 7 to 12 Year Old: Values Acquiring Stage and Your Child's Ages & Stages: 13 to 18 Year Old: Era Impacting Stage provide a fairly comprehension framework for understanding and raising a child to become a successful, effective adult.

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Summary: Raising a child to become a successful, effective adult
Review: This comprehensive guide to child-rearing issues includes the characteristics of effective adults. This book shows how to create and retain these behaviors in the child, such as responsibility, fairness, determination, sympathy, and leadership. By defining these behaviors and characteristics of effective adults, the authors demonstrate how lack of this knowledge leads to failed parenting: drug abuse, delinquency, violence, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, and school dropout. Since society has inadvertently shortened the length of childhood, the authors encourage parents to allow typical ages and stages to develop more fully and normally, not forcing the child into early stunted adulthood. The authors show how arrested emotional and social development can occur and how to remedy the situation. The best parents are seen as ones who do not confuse the immediate satisfaction of the child's desires with the child's ultimate happiness. There are three excellent appendices. One is a complete understanding of how the child and adult learns, the second is a presentation of the laws of success and the third is a matrix that provides a comprehensive overlay of the factors presented in the book to the ages and stages of development when that behavior is most dominant in development. The "Marie says" are one mother's personal stories and opinions on the various childrearing areas. These are worth the price of the whole book. The book recognizes that parenting is a difficult endeavor but that by knowing the 192 factors within 11 dimensions the parents can help create a self-controlled, inner-directed, personally empowered person.