Review: a concise thoughts on child-parenting
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2013
This is a simple but concise read on child parenting psychology.  What I appreciate about this book is that Stephen Williams did not beat around the bush.  He gave key points and explained them in a thorough, understandable and simple manner.In truth, child parenting is extremely difficult.  How can you exercise your authority if you try to be a friend to your child?  Put in another way, how can you become buddies to your kids while exerting your authority as a parent?Becoming a parent is like a jugular or an acrobat in a circus, you have to balance yourself on that thin string without falling or catch all those balls without letting any of them drop to the floor.  Parenting is the same.  It is important that you balance your being a person of authority to your children without losing their trust on you as someone they can lean on to.It doesn’t help if you have two or more kids.  Metaphorically speaking to the jugular, it means you have two or more kids you need to catch and juggle with – two or more temperaments, characters, and attitudes you need to address with.  As I said, becoming a parent, while a glorious feeling, is also immensely complicated.The tips written in this book is actually simple but they are true to the point.  Your goal is to earn your children’s love, trust and respect and everything else in between.  Unfortunately for some, all those things are not packed in a bunch like the ones you buy in a grocery store.  Parents need to earn them one by one.  Yes, we need to earn them and they are not out rightly given.Perhaps, some of you will say, “I already know these things,” but think again.  These tips are reminders to parents that they have the responsibility of forming the children to lead the future society.  This book also reminds them that even if I say “form”, children are not clays that can be shaped or moulded into anything a parent want them to become.  They are their own selves, with their own attitudes, characters and temperaments.  (Did I just say parenting is extremely difficult?)  There will come a time that these children will grow out of their nappies and they can think and decide for themselves.  When this time comes, you cannot just make them obey you.  In reading this book, you will know that as a buddy, children obey with love and trust.  The first (love) is explanatory, the latter (trust) because they know you got their backs.I think this book conveyed information that parents need.  Perhaps, it is not able to discuss everything and there is still room for more tips or information or even a more in-depth study of child-parenting psychology but all in all, this book is worth reading.  If you want to become a responsible parent, take time to sit back, read this and ponder your parenting ways.Don’t we want all the best for our kids?