Raising a Responsible Child: How to Prepare Your Child for Today's Complex World

by Gary D. McKay, Don Dinkmeyer

From Simon & Schuster, Raising a Responsible Child describes how to prepare your child for today's complex world.

This updated edition of the Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) Program includes added information on current issues such as step-parenting, the new nuclear family, AIDS, and dealing with learning disabilities. It's all in Raising a Responsible Child .

253 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 1996

Reviews

[Vivi Papadopoulou · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apart some good psychological points here and there, I think this book is completely outdated and sometimes dreadful!

[Vandita · Rating 2 out of 5]

It doesn't have much that we don't already know but the principles of 'transactional analysis' applied to interactions between a child and a parent is useful. Big take away is that there is only one person you can really change - and that is you ! When you do change your behaviour (make it consistent, encouraging, set limits and let kids operate in those, build self esteem of kids etc.), the response from the child also changes (for the better) and that is the way to raise responsible, emotionally mature, independent children.