Don't Hesitate! Purchase a copy of The Greatest Gifts a Parent Can Give today!

"Parenting is one of life's most rewarding experiences." 

Ever heard that before? While statements like this might give many people warm and fuzzy feelings, any mother or father in the throes of parenting practice can probably think of dozens of more rewarding experiences: an afternoon at the spa, nine holes of golf, sleeping in, a fancy dinner with your spouse, or a clutter free house.

Where is the reward in this experience? Perhaps you can't see it beyond the stream of dirty diapers; the question that you have been asked (and answered) for the seventeenth time; the playdough that was carefully ground into your expensive new carpet; or the "friends" that are scarry to even you.

No, parenting is not automatically a rewarding experience. It takes patience, insight and a lot of work to produce in our children the type of habits, and dispositions that wil position them to be adults that make us beam with pride. When we have done that, then we will be able to see the reward in the parenting experiences.

    "Today's parent must be part psychologist, part physician, part nutritionist, part attorney, and part teacher." 
    "The Greatest Gifts a Parent Can Give is grounded in an understanding of the tremendous odds that parents face today. This book rests on the assumption that there is nothing wrong with our children. They are for good or for ill products of our environment. Many books of this genre identify a problem behavior or set of behavors and proceed to tell parents how to "fix" their children. The Greatest Gifts a Parent Can Give is a refreshing departure from this approach. Rather than presenting the job of parenting as fixing errant children, parenting is understood as giving children the specific tools (or gifts) that will put them in the best position to be successful as adults."

                                                   ~ taken from the Introduction