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The Catholic Press Association looks for excellence in religious and spiritual publishing and I am delighted that they chose my first book with Crossroad for this honor. I am particularly proud because What Not to Expect speaks to parents of all faith traditions as it seeks a universal and common ground of being for parenting. I hope that my new book How's My Kid Doing will bring more attention

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My new book How's My Kid Doing? will be published in September 2008 by Crossroad Publishing Company. It is available for pre-sale on Amazon.com and BN.com. The book documents 69 basic questions I've been asked over the years about sending kids to school. The questions were asked of me as a headmaster but also by fellow parents as we watched our boys and girls play in sports games and on

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My husband says that if I help my 4th-grader with his homework he’ll never learn to do it on his own and he’ll never learn from mistakes because I automatically correct them for him. So should I help with homework at all?This is not an all-or-nothing issue. You and your husband just need to redefine what you mean by “helping.” The first place to start is with your son’s teacher. Ask him how he

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I recently attended a meeting of independent elementary school headmasters in out west. One evening, we were bused to a ranch for a demonstration by a horse whisperer, an old cowboy who explained the “humane” methods he used to break horses. The goal is to create a trusting relationship with the horse so that you can saddle and ride him and he will never turn on you or kick you when you fall. He

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It saddens me how easy it is to find examples of the popular parent advice industry treating kids like puppies who need to learn how to heel (instead of heal.) Consider the bestselling book ASK SUPERNANNY: WHAT EVERY PARENT WANTS TO KNOW by Jo Frost (Hyperion, 2006). In the December, 2006 edition of PEOPLE, Ms. Frost publishes an excerpt from her book with the headline: "How To Stop Your Child

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The resident parenting expert on the Today Show, Dr. Ruth Peters, suggests that bribery is the most effective way to motivate your academically unmotivated student. Says Dr. Peters, "If your child is not internally motivated to complete homework and to study for tests, don't fret--that's normal . . . What to do? Well, I suggest bribing them to complete their responsibilities." Dr. Peters lists

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The parent advice industry reduces children to the status of recipes or trick ponies or both. We parents are either told to add this and add that to produce a certain kind of child or to follow a set of steps to modify our child's behavior. Either way, the parent advice industry employs reductive reasoning, treats your child as a mechanism not as a free, unique human being, and never

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I was lucky enough to be a guest on the new Sirius Catholic Channel (Sirius 159) show "Speak Now!" with hosts Dave and Susan Konig. The new show and channel launch next month. I highly recommend "Speak Now!" to people of all faiths and/or no faith who are concerned about children and spirituality and morality and authenticity in an increasingly divided and chaotic world. Dave and Susan Konig are

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As an educator and fellow parent, I have witnessed four elemental styles of parenting:1. The dutiful parent sees the ordinary rounds of parenting to be the chores every parent ought to perform to raise healthy children. In this way of viewing the ordinary, parents are administrators whose job it is to provide all that is necessary for the care and feeding of their young ones.2. The narcissistic

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I've signed a contract with Crossroad Publishing to write a new book entitled Whatever Happened to Recess? And 100 Other Questions on Parents' Minds These Days. The book is a memoir of sorts--organized in a question and answer format--of my career as a school administrator. Each question represents an actual conversation I have had with a parent. As such, the book not only dispenses advice, but

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What Not to Expect was named the best book on family life for 2006 by the Catholic Press Association.

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