Parents Do Make a Difference: How to Raise Kids with Solid Characteristics, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts
by Michele Borba
The author identifies eight skills considered critical to success: positive self-esteem, cultivating strengths, communicating, problem solving, getting along, goal setting, not giving up, and caring. Checklists help parents identify where their child may be having trouble. Resources, including books, videos and websites, are provided to help parents reinforce each success skill. Directed towards parents of children 3-12.