The Parent's Toolshop: The Universal Blueprint for Building a Healthy Family - 25th Anniversary Edition (2020)

Ever wish children came with instructions? Now they do!
This 2020 printing of the award-winning book combines solid positive parenting and developmental theories, references classic parenting courses, and is endorsed by authors of best-selling books such as Positive Discipline, Love and Logic, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families.

This one-stop resource saves you time, frustration, and money.
Avoid spending hours sorting through inaccurate or contradictory advice. Learn exactly what to Say and Do to get the best results! This book has 100+ practical language and action tools that research has shown to be effective in parenting toddlers, tweens, and teens in diverse families. Save yourself years of regret, guilt, and even therapy from using trial and error to get a quick fix.

Love may come naturally but effective parenting skills are learned.
The Parent's Toolshop® is like taking a parenting class with a parenting expert in the comfort of your own home. Step by step, with each Toolbox, you'll build a healthy family (or remodel yours), from the foundation up:

• Foundation-Building: shifts your mindset to be a more proactive and conscious parent. You’ll set healthy parenting goals and see how a Balanced (authoritarian) parenting style helps you reach them.
• Prevention: offers a simple formula for preventing common problems by raising your child’s self-esteem, fostering self-motivation and cooperation, and teaching the skills and behaviors for being independent and responsible.
• Child Problems: opens the door to communication, builds trust, and teaches children how to make responsible decisions and solve their own problems.
• Parent Problems: shows how to create individualized self-regulation plans, so each family member can keep their cool. Then assertively communicate concerns without lecturing or repeating yourself.
• Problematic Behaviors: reveals the root causes beneath these behaviors, how to avoid rewarding or escalating them, and stop attention-seeking behavior, power struggles, and revenge cycles. Hold children accountable without blame, shame or hurt, so they learn self-discipline.
• Maintenance: shows how to use family councils to make decisions, prevent problems, and develop leadership skills. By the end, your confidence will be so strong that you'll know your family can work through any issue with this system and its tools.

You’ll learn the unique "Universal Blueprint®" for parenting success.
This simple problem-solving system guides you to individualized solutions for each challenge. Just answer three simple questions based on your child and situation. The system leads you to the steps and tools you can choose to create your own solution --- in minutes! You can even use the system to improve relationships with adults!
The Universal Blueprint® system applies to hundreds of common challenges, offering tips you can tailor to your needs, such as sibling rivalry, chores, allowances, morning delays, homework, picky eaters, messy rooms, dating, tantrums, bullies, driving, bedtime, lying, rudeness, curfew, friendship fallouts, A.D.H.D. ...and more!

Comprehensive yet easy to read, "The Parent's Toolshop®" enlightens, informs, and entertains.
Each chapter ends with a summary page, practice exercises to apply what you learned to your family and an answer key with valuable how-to tips! You’ll refer to “The Parent's Toolshop®” again and again, using the index to find tips for over 1,000 topics. When a crisis hits, just open the back cover where you'll find key tools summarized ON ONE PAGE.

Anyone who lives or works with children will benefit from the practical skills and profound revelations in "The Parent's Toolshop®."