If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control -- without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.

Grandparents have changed! The stereotype of the fragile, white haired retiree has been shattered. Todays grandparents are active and involved, in everything from careers to fitness to dating. Along with these changes, they are facing other challenges, providing day care for a grandchild, furnishing temporary shelter for and adult child and grandchild, or even taking on the role of mom or dad for a grandchild. Whatever the unique situation, Jim Fay...

Includes "why traditional techniques such as reminders, rewards, and punishments make the problem worse; how the brain rewards learning, and how to rebuild the internal drive to achieve; a step by step plan for reaching kids who just don't seem to care about school; tools for preventing battles over schoolwork and homework; what to do when your child brings home a poor report card; how to respond when a child says, 'I don't care'; how to lay the foundation...

Recognize how to avoid control battles, how to pick issues carefully and how to give choices.