Team-Spirited Parenting: 8 Essential Principles for Parenting Success - Hardcover

by Darlene Powell Hopson (Author), Derek S. Hopson (Author)

The authors led the way to great relationships between men and women in the bestselling ""Friends, Lovers, and Soul Mates"". Now, in this enlightening and inspiring guide, they show parents how to forge bonds of cooperation, support, and mutual respect with their children through eight essential principles that promote trust and spirituality.

Front Jacket

A renowned husband and wife team shows you how to develop your natural ability to improve every aspect of your child's life

Informative, compassionate, and inspiring, Team-Spirited Parenting is more than a guide to parenting. It shows you how to become the best parent-and person-you can be. With the Hopsons' expert guidance, you can renew your spirit and powerfully shape your bond with your child. Affirming your potential to be more joyful and effective, you will discover how team spirit works on all levels of your parenting experience.

In their workshops, private seminars, and extensive practice as psychologists, the Hopsons train parents to become true partners in raising children. Now you can learn the Hopsons' proven principles, skills, and techniques. These are the tools you need to remove the hidden roadblocks that shut your child off from valuable relationships and limit your ability to listen, assert yourself, resolve conflicts, and work out problems.

Inside, discover the essence of parenting success and learn how to:

• Make peace with the past
• Make peace with your partner
• Communicate compassionately
• Reach out to your village
• Direct your child's behavior
• Nurture the sibling bond
• Acknowledge peer pressure
• Allow time for spirituality and joy

Full of inventories, checklists, real-life exercises, and the down-to-earth strategies that have already helped thousands of parents, this book offers all parents the powerful message that you are not-and should not be-alone in raising children. Whether you are divorced, married, never-married, or a single parent, Team-Spirited Parenting is an indispensable resource that will show you how to effectively create the nurturing family environment your children need to thrive.

Back Jacket

Praise for Dr. Darlene Powell Hopson and Dr. Derek S. Hopson

""Team-Spirited Parenting is a practical, positive guide. The Hopsons offer concrete advice to help parents work together to raise healthy, happy children. This is valuable reading for every parent.""-Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Discover the Power of Team Spirit and Share the Success that Comes When You:

• Know that the past does not control you
• Accept your child's other parent for the person he/she is
• Learn to communicate your feelings openly
• Know when and how to reach out for help
• Become clear, firm, and consistent in directing your child's behavior
• Love each of your children as individuals
• Get to know your children's friends
• Open your life to joy each day

Author Biography

DARLENE POWELL HOPSON, Ph.D., and DEREK S. HOPSON, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologists who head the Hopson Center for Psychological and Educational Services in Connecticut, are the authors of five books, including the bestselling Different and Wonderful and Friends, Lovers, and Soul Mates. They have been consultants to Disney Online and Mattel Toys and are on the Advisory Board of Child magazine.