Why Good Parents Have Bad Kids: How to Make Sure That Your Child Grows Up Right

Even well-meaning parents can, through lack of awareness, neglect their children’s most basic needs. And neglect can take many forms-from overindulgence to lack of communications. E. Kent Hayes has spent a lifetime working to advocate for children and their family. He has gleaned those lessons into this guidebook that explains how to avoid trouble before it starts and how to:

* Instill the value of delayed gratification in children who want it now * Create a flexible day-to-day structure * Talk with a noncommunicative teenager * Balance permissiveness and discipline * Help your child deal with negative peer pressure * Handle problems, such as drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and vandalism * Laugh with your child * Build a lifelong loving relationship with your child

Why Good Parents Have Bad Kids is essential reading for every parent, written by a noted child advocate and juvenile criminologist.