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Essential Parenting: Revitalizing and Remoralizing the Family in the 21st Century
Domenick J. Maglio, Ph.D. and Julie A. Maglio, B.A.
Chapter 1: Essential Parenting in the Cultural Cross Tides Brief Historical Overview of Child Rearing in
the United States; Advantages, Obstacles and Dilemmas of Modern Parenting; From Authoritarianism to Permissiveness: How the
Pendulum Has Swung Too Far; Outcomes of Essential Parenting in the Post Industrial Age.
Chapter 2: Assault on Traditional Values- Erosion of the Family Emergence of the Cultural Relativist, Assault on
Traditional Values, Rationalizations of the Cultural Relativists, Social Surrogates with Mental Health "Miracle Drugs",
Revitalizing the Family.
Chapter 3: Being a Parent in Charge Perceptual Differences, Value Differences, Power Differences, Establishing and
Maintaining Control, Strategies of Manipulating Children and EP Counter Strategies, A Measured Level of Fear is Essential in
Training, Discipline Not Permissiveness is True Unconditional Love, Pros and Cons of Being in Charge, Increasing Mature
Thinking, Never Miss an Opportunity to Discipline, Missed Opportunities for Discipline-Fertile Ground for ADD/ADHD, Paying
Attention the Antidote, The Reality of the Compliant and Non Compliant Child, The Importance of Being in Control.
Chapter 4: Loving Through Purposeful Discipline Foundation of Purposeful Discipline, Eight Steps of Purposeful Discipline,
How to Set Limits and Expectations, Ten Categories of Consequences, POISE: Individualizing Consequences, Choosing and Determining
the "Just Right Moral Consequence".
Chapter 5: Purposeful Discipline Systematic Training of the Child Loving Training, Obedience Training, "The Wrap", Potty Training,
Independence Training, Critical Thinking training, Respectfulness Training, Honesty Training, Reality Training, Conscience Development
Training, Creating Rational and Calibrated Guilt for Misdeed, Empathy Training, Pain Training, Will Power Training, Developing Creativity.
Chapter 6: Perfecting Your Parenting- Criteria for Evaluating Your Training Program Essential Building Blocks of a Well Functioning Family,
Specific Child Behaviors, Minimum Standards and Expectations for a Healthy Child, Socially Approved Character Traits, Parent Self Evaluation,
Usefulness of Stress, Fine Tuning the Training.
Chapter 7: Frequently Asked Questions
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