How to Avoid Being Fired as a Parent: Building Respectful Relationships to Secure Your Family’S Success and Happiness
By Jenny Bailey
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How to avoid being fired as a parent: Building respectful relationships to secure your family's success and happiness is for parents wishing to build strong, loving and trusting relationships with their children. It is for parents who want to raise their children without relying on threats, bribes, rewards and punishment-all of which have a negative impact on your relationship with your children and your family. It is for parents who are challenged by defiant and difficult children. If you are seeking more pleasure in your role as a parent, and wish to enjoy deeper and more intimate relationships with your children, the skills and ideas described within this book will secure your success. This book will provide you with a positive and constructive way of raising your children to have high emotional intelligence and exceptional communication skills, while you will enjoy an enhanced opportunity to influence your children.
Jenny Bailey
Jenny is an author, trainer, coach, speaker and consultant who specialises in helping parents build great relationships with their children. Jenny founded Parent Central because she believes we can dramatically improve our childrens lives and change the world by parenting without the use of threats, punishment and rewards.
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How to Avoid Being Fired as a Parent - Jenny Bailey
Copyright © 2015 by Jenny Bailey.
Edited by Joanna Yardley
Back cover photo by Hayley Durack
ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4828-5256-1
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Summary
Einführung
Chapter One The Modern Parenting Dilemma
Chapter Two The Impact Of Using Power To Parent
Chapter Three Parenting For Your Child’s Emotional Health
Chapter Four The Philosophy And Mindset Of The Respectful Parent
Chapter Five Self-Mangement For The Respectful Parent
Chapter Six How A Respectful Parent Will Listen So Their Children Will Talk
Chapter Seven How A Respectful Parent Communicates, So Children Will Listen
Chapter Eight How Respectful Parents Solve Problems
Chapter Nine Applying The Skills
Appendix
References
About The Author
This book is
dedicated to Rhys, without whom I would never have travelled this journey.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Psychologist, Dr Thomas Gordon believed strongly that using power was detrimental to our relationships with our children. Dr Gordon was nominated, on three accounts, for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in developing a range of communication techniques to help us build successful relationships within these relationships. He is most famous for his development of the skills based parenting program Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.).
Dr Gordon taught his first parenting program in 1962. Since then, millions of people have trained in P.E.T. skills. Since running his first program, there has been significant research into the effectiveness of the method and the benefits to both parents and children.
It is through standing on the shoulders of the work of others that modern parents can bring the best knowledge and skills and offer our own children the best psychological health and conditioning, and raise children with high Emotional Intelligence and enjoy a deep loving and trusting relationship with our own children that will endure our lifetimes. —Dr Thomas Gordon
Daniel Goleman, in his book Emotional Intelligence, alerted the world to the fact that Emotional Intelligence (EQ) was a better predictor of long-term success than IQ, and that emotional skills could be learned. Coleman’s work heralded a stream of new insights from modern brain scientists made possible by advances in technology.
SUMMARY
We all approach parenthood along different paths. Some of us always knew we would be parents while some came here by accident. Others were swept up in the enthusiasm of their friends or family and the joy of seeing nieces and nephews come into the world.
Regardless of how we got here, we all want the best for our children, and we want to do the best parenting job. We want our children to be happy: when they are happy, we are happy. We want our children to be successful. We want them to achieve a life of which we, as their parents, can be proud.
We want to enjoy our family life. We want to take the children to the beach, play in the sand, and go on picnics and bike rides.
We want to maintain and deepen our spousal relationship by adding the joy of bringing up children together.
We want peace and quiet and for everyone to get along.
INTRODUCTION
I wrote this book because I was looking for a way of parenting that was going to enable me to build a great relationship with my child and leave me free of endless fighting about bedtime and homework and would equipment me with tools to help my child navigate the challenges of growing up.
When I started my parenting journey, I was petrified. I came from a perfectly normal middle-class background and life in Melbourne, Australia. I had two younger sisters, and my parents were totally committed to their children.
I graduated from university with an engineering degree but hated my first job in that field. I eventually became general manager at a large government business with a team of 150 members. I loved my job, was paid well and enjoyed a good life. I had a keen interest in outdoor activities and spent my weekends skiing, bike riding or paragliding. I could not think of one good reason to have children. Why would I want to wreck my career, send myself broke and destroy my weekends?
I fought against having children through my 20s and 30s. I saw no logical reason to have children. Clearly family life was not fun. Children cost a fortune; they destroyed your social life and disrupted opportunities to pursue your own hobbies. Children wrecked your career ….
When my husband finally announced that he wanted to have children, I was petrified. I used all of the skills I had learned in my MBA to demonstrate the business case for why having children did not stack up. However, deep down, in my heart, I knew I should have children. So I ‘took the plunge’ and gave birth to a healthy 9lb 2oz baby boy at the age of 40.
Now I really was afraid. Raising a child petrified me. Giving birth did not scare me. A few sleepless nights did not scare me. I did not want to spend my life arguing with my child and living in conflict. I wanted to know how to get him to bed without yelling. I wanted to maintain a relationship with my child. I did not want to spend life in the chaos and hostility of the families that surrounded me. Nor did I want to spend my life trying to discipline my child, only to have him yell back at me. I also had a deep-rooted fear of screwing my child up.
All of these fears yet I was still thinking, How could I become the best parent I could be?
After having my son, I looked for a parenting skills program. I found a tiny advertisement for a program called Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.) in a local parenting magazine. I signed up at once and started the program when my son was only 3 months old.
The program was profound. It brought together all of the skills that I had learned during my corporate career. It put them into a comprehensive parent-child framework. I was taught how to use the skills properly. I discovered how it felt to be listened to; to be understood and to have my needs met. I discovered my needs were legitimate and that I was worthy enough to deserve to have my needs met. It felt wonderful. It was healing. I realised that how we speak to our children can not only take the conflict out of our lives but also significantly build our children’s self-esteem and feelings of worthiness—how we speak to our children is powerful.
That was the gift I wanted to give to my child. It was also a gift that I would give to myself, as it would enable me to maintain my connection with my child, which would be rewarding to me. A beautiful, loving and trusting relationship is what having a