The award winning book, 7 Skills for Parenting Success, contains easy-to-read, complete, and innovative instructions for carrying out the child rearing methods shown by research to work best.

It shows you not only what to do, but also how to do it and what to say to your kids of all ages in order to accomplish the following:

• Prevent and handle behavior problems.
• Build strong lifelong relationships with your children and resolve conflict between you.
• Develop their respectful behavior, responsibility, motivation, self-reliance, resilience, character, and emotional health, while preventing entitled attitudes.
• Decrease negative outside influences on your children, such as friends and media violence and sexuality.
• Manage their temperaments.
• Get them to listen and learn from you.
• Decrease your stress.

7 Skills for Parenting Success also tells you what to expect from your children at their ages. This manual contains all the help and advice most parents 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 while caring for women during their pregnancies and over the years while their children are growing up. Dr. Berdahl’s ability to simplify complex information for patients, while anticipating questions and concerns, has been combined with the expertise of her coauthor in this comprehensive guide. Her private practice includes consulting on emotional health matters as well as child rearing. 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. As a full professor at the University of Northern Colorado, he has been the Director of Training for the doctoral program in Counseling Psychology for many years. He has published articles 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 and his coauthor have happily and successfully raised their two children together using the skills in this book.