No Regrets Parenting: Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids Paperback - 2017

For tiger moms, free-range parents, helicopter parents, soccer moms, single parents, stay-at-home dads, and every other lifestyle du jour, No Regrets Parenting focuses on the simple truth that long days of busy parenting race quickly by and teaches parents how to stretch and enhance the time they spend with their kids.

No Regrets Parenting is a book for busy parents in our busy times. Juggling family and professional lives is not a course taught in high school or college--many parents find the challenges of being all things to all people daunting. This theme is ubiquitous in today's culture--movies, theatre, books, magazine features, and human interest news stories all find the challenge of raising children to be prime fodder for audiences. How to do it all? How to stay sane while trying to do it all?

 

No Regrets Parenting teaches parents how to experience the joy and depth of the parenting experience amidst the chaos and choreography of daily routines. Car pool, bath time, soccer practice, homework, dinner hour, and sleepovers all become more than just obligations and hurdles to overcome to get through the day. They are opportunities for intimate and meaningful time--quality time--with young kids. It's not how much time you have with your kids, but how you spend that time that matters in the life and legacy of a young family. No Regrets Parenting readjusts parents' perspectives and priorities, helping them find the time to do it all and feel good about your kids' childhood.

 

There is a simple, single truth for every parent. Your kids need you to be there. They need to see who you are and how you live your life. And, in return, they will help you to see who you are and how you should be living your life. For all of that to happen, parents need time with their kids. Memorable and meaningful time. No Regrets Parenting is about time. Finding enough of it and making the most of it.

Details

• Title No Regrets Parenting: Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids
• Author Harley A. Rotbart
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Original
• Pages 232
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.
• Date 2017-03-06
• Illustrated Yes
• Features Illustrated
• ISBN 9781449410940 / 1449410944
• Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
• Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
• Themes
  • Topical: Family
• Library of Congress subjects Child rearing, Child development
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011932656
• Dewey Decimal Code 649.1

âÈêNo Regrets Parenting encourages parents to be mindful of the choices they are making with the precious little time they have to spend with their children before (and after) they fly the coop. It presents an upbeat and refreshing perspective which empowers parents to examine, without guilt, the choices they make about the time spent with their children. The book is neither preachy nor prescriptive, but instead presents a menu of creative strategies for âÈêturning scarce minutes in to special moments.âÈë Dr. RotbartâÈçs book, a must-read for any parent, will leave your head buzzing with ideas. The short chapters enable you to read a few at a time âÈ' in between pajama walks, movie nights, and carpool driving âÈ' that will forge a lifelong bond between you and your children.âÈë

--Heather Taussig, PhD, Clinical Psychologist; Director, Fostering Healthy Futures program, Children's Hospital Colorado