I'll Be The Parent, You Be The Kid: The Hot Button Topics in Parenting

by Paul Kropp

I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Kid offers the insights parents really need to handle today's controversial parenting challenges.

With the many parenting books available today, it's not surprising many parents are confused by the wide range of methods, styles and quick-fix solutions being suggested. In I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Kid Paul Kropp considers the most difficult issues in parenting using real-life scenarios and offers firm opinions based on the latest research. Drawing on his own experience as an educator and parent, his talks with hundreds of Canadian families and 40 years of reliable parenting research, Paul Kropp tackles such tough topics

discipline and spanking

sibling rivalry -- what's "normal"?

how much daycare is good daycare?

the impact of television on kids and families

the myth of quality time.

304 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 1998

Reviews

[Jaymi Boswell]

This is written from a Christian point of view. I enjoyed it for it's simplistic approach to parenting.

[Francine]

Hard to rate this book since it is pretty outdated. But I found it kind of refreshing to read. He takes an approach of “perfect is the enemy of the good,” and I think overall the advice is pretty good. I find modern books are a bit intense with the guilt and the aiming for perfection. There are a few highly recommended ones that I didn’t finish because they made me anxious. Some topics are of their time (pretty essentialist in terms of gender roles for example) and of course the technology and media examples are obviously very out of date (which I found somewhat charming since I grew up in the 90s). The author is opinionated, but he never tried to say otherwise. I will take from it what I find useful, adapt certain things to today’s technology and cultural landscape, and leave the rest in 1998.