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The Secrets of Modern Parenting
Posted Dec 10, 2009 by Beth Gaddis
Updated Dec 11, 2009 at 09:39 AM
Story by Gayle Guyardo
In this age of sexting, texting, foul language and racy images, raising kids isn’t easy.
“Parents feel pressure,” said Karin Torsiello, a board-certified behavioral analyst who has spend more than a decade working with high-risk kids and foster children. “Parents react and parent from the hip and don’t think before they speak.”
Torsiello, who is based in Stewart, is the co-author of “The Secrets of Modern Parenting,” a six-DVD series that gives parents step-by-step tips on how to handle common discipline issues. Each DVD focuses on a different area: building relationships, gaining compliance, ending arguing, eliminating lying, extinguishing tantrums and ending backtalk and disrespect.
Torsiello said the most important step is opening up the lines of communication and avoiding saying that phrase parents have used for centuries: “Because I said so.”
“If a parent doesn’t have a close bond with their child, the child is not going to hear what the parent has to say. They might sit there and nod their heads and say OK, but they’re not really taking it in and digesting it,” Torsiello said. “The only way a parent has a good shot at getting their child to digest that information and really think about it is if they first establish a connection.”
For information about “The Secrets of Modern Parenting,” go to www.smp4kids.com.
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Posted by (gotideas) on December 10, 2009
Every generation thinks they are dealing with something new- there may be different fads but the same old pressure of to raise responsible, healthy children. There is no magic formula as kids are not static—-the problem of modern parents is they want the kids to be self programmed to do the right thing and this is their job as parents to do the programming. This generation has too much DO AS I SAY not as I DO unfortunately children are imitators not direction takers. There is nothing wrong with “because I said so” sometimes it just fits and besides they don’t always need to know the reasons for what we do, they’ll understand someday when they have kids—and say “my parents sure had it easier than me”—THAT’S THE JOY OF HAVING CHILDREN—- first to be the parent then the grandparent and finally for the first time understanding it all-experience really is the best teacher—guess MOM had it right after all