“Are Your Kids Driving You Nuts? – How to Avoid Devastating Parent Traps” is a comprehensive 115 page parenting resource manual that deals with the issue of "control" and the traps parents can fall into when attempting to control their child's behavior. Dr. Jones has a down-to-earth (down right funny!) approach that teaches the principles of correct parenting with humor and common sense.
You will find practical, easy to understand solutions to many common parenting problems--and they really work! These include:
1. Parenting Myths, Falsehoods and Lies: Good parents raise good kids; bad parents raise bad kids.
2. Freedom of Choice: Must man be free to choose, or should he be forced to do what's right?
3. Mission Impossible: Can parents always be in control of their children?
4. What is a Parent Trap? The harder you try, the harder you fall.
5. The Control Trap: The greatest pitfall and misconception parents have.
6. The Trap of Anger: The key to understanding why we get angry.
7. The Trap of Rage: What is the Rage Gauge?
8. The Traps of Arguing and Contention: How do you stop the contention and arguing in your home?
9. The Traps of Lying and Inconsistency: Are you lying to your children?
10.The Traps of Being Critical and Unforgiving: Discounting, shaming and rejection.
11. The Teenage Retirement Trap: How are you retiring your children?
12. The Rescuing Trap: How kids are set up to be at high risk for drug abuse and suicide.
13. The Lecturing and Insight Traps: Boring! Don't they already know 99% of what you'll say?
14. The Nagging Trap: Kids don't see nagging as counsel or support.
15. The Traps of Conditional Love and Acceptance: I will only love you if you do what I want.
16. The Parental Disunity Trap: A house divided against itself cannot stand.
17. The Quick-Fix Trap and Making Exceptions: Avoiding the real problem.
18. The Trap of Misusing Rewards and Punishments: Without a plan...without a clue.
19. The Trap of Excessive Punishment: The more you punish, the less effective it becomes.
20. The Trap of Favoritism: The temptation to love the easiest child more than the difficult child.
21. The Surrogate Spouse Trap: Emotional incest.
22. The Scapegoat Trap: Finding a safe place to vent our negative emotions.
23. The Traps of Guilt, Unrealistic Expectations and Perfectionism: The formula for shaming and failure.
24. The Trap of Button-Pushing and Overreacting: Are the kids punching your hot buttons?
25. Toxic Parents: Undisciplined Disciplinarians
26. Escaping the Parent Traps
27. The Healthy Parent and Functional Family
28. Peace and Joy in Letting Go
29. The Parables
Dr. James J. Jones is the founder of the Familyhood Education Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening individuals, marriages and family relationships by teaching correct principles upon which healthy and loving relationships are established.
Through hundreds of hours of individual, family and group counseling, Dr. Jones realized that good parenting didn’t just happen; that parenting is a science based upon correct principles. Dr. Jones went back to school and earned a Masters degree in Marriage, Family and Child Therapy, and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology.
Over the years Dr. Jones has given thousands of hours of individual and family counseling. With this experience, combined with the knowledge and irrefutable data from studies, Dr. Jones has developed highly acclaimed parenting programs that have helped thousands of families all over the United States and Canada.
