PRAISE FOR THE ART OF EMPOWERED PARENTING
"This book, cleverly subtitled “The Manual You Wish Your Kids Came With,” is both instructional and encouraging, full of advice, information, exercises to try, and stories from other families, helping you to become the parent you have always wanted to be. Written by Dr. Erik Fisher, Steven Wayne Sharp, and Diane Fivaz Wichman, all parents, as well as a psychologist, freelance writer, and parenting trainer respectively, the book is the result of many years of personal and professional experience and research. Rather than telling you how to parent your child, this book helps you understand what approaches will work for your family, and it is meant to help you develop as a parent while improving your family relationship overall. With advice to help you find the strengths and weaknesses of each of your family members, and information to make those qualities fit together, The Art of Empowered Parenting can truly help you to form a well-bonded and functional family. Whether you’re just preparing to have kids or are already dealing with specific difficulties, the authors help you through a variety of family issues, from discipline and roles of power to attachment and communication. With a healthy dose of psychological facts that are easy to understand, as well as practical tips for putting that knowledge to good use, this is a book you will turn to again and again while navigating the complexities that come with being a parent. As the authors assert, we learn from our children as much as we teach them, and only when we work together – parents and children both - can we create the family that we all want. Although that’s not always how parents approach trying situations, this book is truly the tool to help you make that notion of a collaborative family a reality."
ACCENT - Gwinnett Magazine Reviews Empowered Parenting
"The Art of Empowered Parenting provides many insights which will
be helpful to parents and the professionals with whom they work.
Fisher and his colleagues have pulled together many theoretical perspectives
to provide readers with an easy-to-read, common sense-based book.
I found the chapters on temperament and attachment
of particular personal and professional interest. This book will help
parents avoid the power struggles that diminish their capacity to
engage in effective parenting, and it will help them see that many
of the conflicts they experience are the result of parent-child psychological
intersections."
--Gregory C. Keck, PhD, Attachment & Bonding Center of
Ohio, and co-author of Adopting the Hurt Child and Parenting the
Hurt Child
"Written by seasoned professionals with years of practical experience,
this book refreshingly addresses issues of parenting often not
discussed, including approaches to power and emotion and temperament
and attachment. The authors also help parents see the
wisdom of looking at themselves to understand their children. As a
pediatrician, I feel that this book strongly addresses what can help
parents the most."
--David Thompson, MD, FAAP
"No parenting book has ever packed so much usable information
into one book. The authors don't just give you tips, they help you to
build strategies to last for a lifetime of successful parenting. Advice
and help can be found in this book for every family. It truly lives
up to its title."
--Jean Scott Martin, Attorney at Law, former Guardian ad Litem
A Help For Parents and Children, September 27, 2007
"I know what you are thinking that this is just another book on what you should and should not do with your own children, well think again. Inside the pages of this work you will be pleasantly surprised as you are shown strategies to overcome so many areas of difficulty in raising your children.
However, before you can be a victor you have to understand the how's and why's of these problems and this book does an exceptional job in doing just that. From troubled child to timid child, you will gain insight into the inner working of your offspring, and be more sensitive to what needs to be done for them.
The authors want you to succeed in parenting and explain the true meaning of an equity-based parenting approach. Sounds weird and not for you? Believe me, once you understand the benefits of this approach you will sing a different tune. I certainly could not begin to explain this to you in such a short review but believe me I was impressed and wished I had used this years ago when my children were young. The authors have penned a great book and one that all parents will find invaluable in raising their children to be self-productive and strong adults." --Shirley Priscilla Johnson, Author/Reviewer