Duct Tape Parenting

There's a new set of 3Rs for our kids-respect responsibility and resilience-to better prepare them for life in the real world. Once developed these skills let kids take charge and let parents step back to the benefit of all. Casting hover mothers and helicopter parents aside Vicki Hoefle encourages a different counter-intuitive-yet much more effective-approach: for parents to sit on their hands stay on the sidelines even if duct tape is required so that the kids step up. Duct Tape Parenting gives parents a new perspective on what it means to be effective engaged parents and to enable kids to develop confidence through solving their own problems. This is not a book about the parenting strategy of the day-what the author calls Post-It Note Parenting-but rather a relationship-based guide to span all ages and stages of development. Witty straight-shooting Hoefle addresses frustrated parents everywhere who are ready to raise confident capable children to go out in the world.