12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid: Leading Your Kids to Succeed in Life
You’re deeply committed to helping your kids succeed. But you’re concerned—why are so many graduates unprepared to enter the workforce and face life on their own? You’re doing your best to raise healthy children, but sometimes you wonder, am I really helping them?
Tim Elmore shows you how to avoid twelve critical mistakes parents unintentionally make. He outlines practical and effective parenting skills so you won’t fall into common traps, such as…
- making happiness a goal instead of a by-product
- not letting kids struggle or fight for what they believe
- not letting them fail or suffer consequences
- lying about kids’ potential—and not exploring their true potential
- giving them what they should earn
Find out why thousands of organizations have sought out Tim Elmore to help them develop young leaders—and how you can improve your parenting skills and help your kids soar.
"In our desire to be engaged parents, we sometimes do our kids
more harm than good. We want to put them in a safe box, tell them
not to leave it, and believe that all will be well. Tim's book
inspires us to prepare our children for their adult lives, not our
safe box! If we want them to thrive, we've got to equip them, and
this book shows us how."
—Jeremy Affeldt, pitcher, San Francisco Giants
"Our best intentions as parents can often lead to a series of
unintended consequences that could dangerously derail the emotional
development of our children. Once again, Dr. Tim Elmore combines
research-based wisdom and practical application to keep us on track
as we strive to nurture, love, and lead our children well. Buy this
book. It's destined to become the well-worn manual of every mom and
dad."
—Tami Heim, former president of Borders Books, CEO, Christian
Leadership Alliance
"As an educator and a student affairs practitioner with a
background in mental health (and five children), I highly endorse
this important perspective on parenting in today's culture. The
world we live in is more complex than ever before. Parents and
educators can highly benefit from this commonsense approach to the
important tools of coaching, supporting, and challenging our youth
to grow, to struggle, to learn, and to become the best people they
can be."
—Julie Talz Cox, director of residential life, Purdue
University
Product Details
- Title : 12 Huge Mistakes Parents Can Avoid: Leading Your Kids to Succeed in Life
- Author: Elmore, Tim
- Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9780736958448
Dr. Tim Elmore is the president of Growing Leaders, a nonprofit that provides 6000 public schools, universities, civic organizations, and corporations with resources that foster the growth of young leaders. He is the author of more than 25 books and speaks at more than 100 events annually.