The award winning child rearing book, 7 Skills for Parenting Success, has uniquely complete, clear and detailed instructions for using the skills shown by research to work best.

It shows you not only what to do, but also how to do it, what to say to your kids, and what to do if the skills don’t seem to be working, in order to:

• Prevent and handle child behavior problems, as well as parent-child conflict.
• Build strong life-long relationships with your children.
• Develop their respectful behavior, responsibility, motivation, self-reliance, resilience, character and emotional health.
• Manage outside influences on your children, from friends to media.
• Learn about and deal with their temperaments.
• Help them listen to and learn from you.
• Decrease your stress while you more confidently raise your family, whether they’re still little tykes or already teenagers.

7 Skills for Parenting Success also tells you what to expect from your children at their ages. This book contains all the help and advice most parenting will ever need!

About the Authors

Laurie D. Berdahl, MD is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist with a background in genetic research. Her interest in parenting education has followed naturally from becoming a mother, and from caring for women during their pregnancies and over the years while their children are growing up. Dr. Berdahl’s talent for simplifying complex information for patients, while anticipating questions and concerns, has been combined with her research skill and the expertise of her coauthor in this comprehensive guide for parents. Her private practice includes consulting on emotional health matters as well as parenting with her teenage and adult patients. She is also a speaker on women's and family issues including parenting.

Brian D. Johnson, PhD is a licensed child psychologist and parenting expert. He is a full professor and Director of Training for the doctoral program in Counseling Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado. An editor and author of the Encyclopedia of Counseling, he has published in the areas of parenting and emotional and behavioral disorders in children, including attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Johnson has helped many parents with their children in his private practice, and gives seminars in parenting and play therapy to mental health professionals. He has also consulted with educators to help them assist students with psychological disorders. He and Laurie are happily married and raising their two teenage children together with great success. They enjoy giving parenting talks together when their busy schedules allow.