Strategies for Parenting: The Road to Independence
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This book is an innovative approach to elevate the role of parenting and the development of children by providing powerful and relevant insight and wisdom from successful experiences.
This will help you as parents make the most of your opportunity to develop the right strategies for parenting, enabling you to enjoy time with your children and prepare them for a successful life. As you develop your strategies for parenting your children along the challenging road to independence, you will experience one of the most satisfying accomplishments in life, a legacy to be proud of.
This book is laid out in three key sections: strategies, life skills, and preparation for independence. The strategies section helps you to focus on developing your overall approach to parenting. The life skills section provides guidance on developing important skills applicable to all stages and aspects of life. Independence is a key goal of effective parenting that incorporates all sections of the book with an approach that begins with steps at an early age.
This book is a collaborative effort among a husband, wife, son, and daughter to demonstrate the necessary involvement of parents and children for effective parenting strategies. Authors use a unique combination of guiding points and real-life stories to provide key learning in a thought-provoking yet simple way. The book has unique subject matter and touches on a very diverse array of perspectives, from parents, children, working professionals, teachers, mentors, sports psychology, and observational research.
This book will engage parents and children to have healthy discussions and debates. This will foster communication, understanding, and agreement within the household in a timely and effective manor to eliminate many avoidable parenting problems. Parenting is what you make it. If you take action to resolve strategies and involve your kids in this process, you will succeed as parents and enjoy a collaborative and successful home.
Jeff M. Brown
Jeff is a passionate leader in:creating the opportunity to engage children in thinking about, understanding, and developing skills for businesselevating the role of parents in the development of independent and well-prepared childrenA pioneer in recognizing the need and developing business programming for children in 2000.Author of The Kids’ Guide to BusinessAuthor of Strategies for Parenting: The Road to IndependenceAuthor of Teaching Kids Business: Why, What, When, Where, How & ImpactA social entrepreneur and professional accountant CMA, who has a broad base of business and industry experience.Recognizes the opportunities for children, parents, and businesses to develop in ways to improve and have a positive impact on society.A logical and progressive thinker, who inspires thought-provoking conversations and perspectivesA father of two and husband of 25 years; sports enthusiast, biker, golfer, and fitness fanaticAs a seasoned businessperson, entrepreneur, author, and founder of several related social ventures, Jeff brings diverse and interesting perspectives to his subject matter.Founder of:TeachingKidsBusiness.comBusinessPreparationProgram.comwww.jeffmarkbrown.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffmarkbrown
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Strategies for Parenting - Jeff M. Brown
Strategies for Parenting: The Road to Independence
by Jeff M. Brown
Copyright © 2011, Jeff M. Brown
Smashwords Edition
Revised edition © 2013, Jeff M. Brown
All rights reserved.
Published by TeachingKidsBusiness.com
2nd edition November 2013
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.
Smashwords eISBN 978-0-9936192-0-5
Table of Contents
Other books by Jeff Brown
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Section 1: Strategies for Parenting
Introduction
Determine your commitment to parenting
Compromises as a parent
Rethink the type of person you are
Define what parenting is to you
Parent as a manager
Be a professional parent, the CEO of your household
Guiding strategies for parenting
Respect
Look in the mirror to better understand your children and how you need to parent.
Consistency: No means no
Lead by example
Communication
Get your children involved in your strategies
Discipline
Safety
Family time
Sibling interaction
Don't pamper your child
Your child is gifted
Celebrate success
Section 2: Life Skills
Introduction
Life Skills - Basic - Foundation for Success
Eating
Sleeping
Focus: attention and concentration
Attitude
Reading
Value of money and budgeting
Life Skills: Character Development
General character development
Responsibility
Confidence
Leadership
Perspective
Mentoring
Interests
Bad influences
Sense of humor
Life Skills: Coping
Stress management
Expectations
Dealing with failure
Giving and taking advice
Priority setting
To-do lists
Learn to compete
Life skill development through sports, i.e., golf
Life Skills: Education and Career Preparation
Education in and out of school
Education: college and university
Job and career discussion
Teaching Kids Business
Entrepreneurial Skills and Dream
Section 3: The Road to Independence(tm)
Concept
Conclusion
Appendix
Strategies for Parenting Mapping
About the Authors
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Simple and effective strategies and activities to develop life skills and experiences that prepare kids of all ages for business. This book provides progressive thinking, ideas to implement, teaching techniques, and a solid framework to teach kids business. The use of this content will help to shape an action plan for teaching kids business, encouraging business conversations, helping children to become more aware and interested in business, creating opportunities for skill development and experience, and instilling confidence and a higher level of respect in children through business techniques and skills.
This book will:
• Broaden the meaning of teaching kids business.
• Create more opportunities to teach business and witness greater impact.
• Help kids become more aware and interested in business.
• Begin business conversations, activities, and preparation with kids.
• Begin business conversations, activities, and business.
The Kids' Guide to Business
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This book will:
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• Explore many business principles to develop skills and experiences in business.
• Create a business planning approach to apply to any business.
Introduction
Parenting is the most widely practiced role in the world, accounting for an amazing amount of time and resources focused on raising children. Are we doing a good job and if not, what are the consequences in our households, schools, communities, and beyond? Make the most of your opportunity to develop the right strategies for parenting to enjoy your time with your children and prepare them for a successful life. As you develop the right strategies for parenting your children along the challenging road to independence, you will experience one of the most satisfying accomplishments in life, a legacy to be proud of.
This book was inspired by comments from teachers and other parents who respected the type of children we had raised and the type of parents we were. We gave a lot of thought to our strategies for parenting and felt that other people could benefit from our approach and success. We realize there is no one formula for successful parenting because many variables will determine a child's success in daily life, school, and the future. We will help you parent by providing good logic and thinking to give you a resource to further create and adapt our strategies and develop a framework of thinking in order to develop your own strategies.
We use strategies for parenting
as a unique way to provide a mix of thoughtful and strategic thinking to elevate the approach to parenting. As parents and professionals, we bridge customs, values, and philosophies of being parents with business skill development and a good appreciation of skills needed to succeed in daily life and careers. Our goal is to share our thinking with others in the hopes that we can help parents navigate through the many challenges of parenting and to bring new ideas to parenting. We can relate to parenting and feel we can communicate in an effective way through our experiences. As professionals, we bring our own business training skills and techniques, basic logic, research, and a great passion for parenting to develop our unique approach of strategies for parenting.
The strategies we have developed and the examples we use can be applied to all ages and cultures. For example, eating and healthy choices are life skills that can be learned and reinforced at all ages. Safety, education, attitude, interests, stress management, and focus are a few examples of many of our other strategies that apply to each age of development and evolve with age.
A key component of our strategies for parenting and preparation for independence is the development of life skills. We define life skills as the skills you inherit and develop that allow you to function in your daily life. These skills broadly include all things people do, and they develop over time. The goal of independence for your children will be accomplished once they have the necessary life skills to succeed on their own. The level of success children enjoy is directly related to the level of life skills they develop.
Our underlying theme of independence is the eventual goal and measurement of success as a parent. The Road to Independence(tm) is the journey to your child's independence. The obvious meaning of independence to most of us is to teach our children to cook and do the wash, but it starts at an early age and has a much broader meaning in our minds. We have expanded the meaning of independence significantly to include children doing things for themselves, thereby developing many more important life skills and disciplines. We believe the foundation for independence includes basic life skills, character development, attitudes, experiences, and activities, all of which shape the individual. Our strategies are broad and will help you along the long road for many years to develop and prepare your children for independence.
We have succeeded with our strategies for parenting. It is not our intent to boast about our children, but rather draw on our successes to help others learn from and apply our strategies. We realize readers will assess our parenting based on our children's success. Our daughter obtained a Division I athletic scholarship combined with a 93% academic average. Our son had a 90% average and earned an academic scholarship and acceptance into the top business schools in our country. Our children obtained numerous academic school recognition, community and participatory awards, and an impressive list of other accomplishments, such as being Student Council Presidents of their high schools. On numerous occasions, our children have been referred to as role models.
Parenting is one of the most important roles we face, but most of us have limited or no training. Many of us learn from our exposures to parenting from our own parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, friends, TV, movies, books, and Internet. We struggle at times and stress about what to do and how to approach it. We believe parents should give thought to how they should parent in the many situations they will face. This book will give you helpful insight that you can build on with your own values, customs, and approach to develop your own successful strategies.
An important part of successful parenting is your ability to develop as a parent. Children are the consequence of your parenting and the harsh reality is that you are responsible for the actions of your children. Be honest with yourself and determine the root of problems; is the issue what your children are doing or how they are being parented? Start early because it will be tougher to address an issue later.
An interesting by-product of successful parenting is the resulting confidence and improvement in other parts of your life. We have found that our success as parents has also strengthened our professional lives. Conversely, we have seen many professional lives affected by parenting issues or challenges. We have also developed our management skills through our parenting strategies and have been fortunate to have a very successful marriage, which in part is due to a happy and successful household. Successful parenting affects your life in many positive ways.
As the founders of TeachingKidsBusiness.com, we recognize the need to develop children as our future leaders. We also have affected many children worldwide with progressive thinking in the areas of developing business and life skill curriculum for use at an early age. The insight we