This book adds another dimension to making the art of parenting more bearable. The book sets out to establish guidelines for effective parenting. The guidelines are based on combining a lucid distillation of the conventional and professional wisdom about parenting with the author's personal experience as a parent. After all, experience, the sages say, is the best teacher! Some lessons are also borrowed from tradition, logical reasoning and common sense, pure and simple. Parenting is life's hardest job. Parents are charged with the enormous responsibility of bringing up the next generation of human beings, so life on earth can continue. It is a responsibility that requires all that is good in a human being. That is, honesty, patience, tolerance, understanding, love, good sense of humor, thick-skin, selflessness, the list is endless! Parenting, being a life-long endeavor, has so many facets to it that it poses a big challenge to cover all aspects of it in a book of this nature. However, there is definitely enough material for any parent, whether seasoned or just beginning, to draw from. Some chapters even include rules that could guide parents to make informed decisions, or act appropriately under various circumstances.
This book adds another dimension to making the art of parenting more bearable. The book sets out to establish guidelines for effective parenting. The guidelines are based on combining a lucid distillation of the conventional and professional wisdom about parenting with the author's personal experience as a parent. After all, experience, the sages say, is the best teacher! Some lessons are also borrowed from tradition, logical reasoning and common sense, pure and simple. Parenting is life's hardest job. Parents are charged with the enormous responsibility of bringing up the next generation of human beings, so life on earth can continue. It is a responsibility that requires all that is good in a human being. That is, honesty, patience, tolerance, understanding, love, good sense of humor, thick-skin, selflessness, the list is endless! Parenting, being a life-long endeavor, has so many facets to it that it poses a big challenge to cover all aspects of it in a book of this nature. However, there is definitely enough material for any parent, whether seasoned or just beginning, to draw from. Some chapters even include rules that could guide parents to make informed decisions, or act appropriately under various circumstances.
