STRICTLY PARENTING

Everything you need to know about raising school-aged kids

by MICHAEL CARR-GREGG

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New softcover book, 352 pages, published 2014. With illustrations by Ron Tandberg.

If you want to land your kids in therapy,then by all means, give them everything under the sun.

In his work as a family psychologist, Michael Carr-Gregg has noticed a worrying trend in our modern parenting styles, which sees kids running riot and parents running for cover. In our desire to give our children the best, we may have given them way too much, and overlooked the importance of setting boundaries. He believes it's a recipe for disaster. 

In Strictly Parenting, Michael asks parents to take a good hard look at the way they are parenting – to toughen up and stop trying to be their kids' best friends.  Instead he offers practical, evidence-based solutions on how to take back the reins and start making the most of the precious family years.  

With a user-friendly A-Z guide covering all the tricky issues that parents encounter over the years  – everything from birthday parties and bedtimes to sex and drugs – this is an invaluable and very timely resource for parents of all school-aged kids. 

Contents include:

• What your parenting style?
• The unfortunate rise of crap parenting
• What every parent needs to know about kids aged 5 - 12
• What every parent needs to know about teenagers
• What every parent needs to know about their own issues
• Don't do anything for your children that they can do themselves
• Give your kids a regular dose of vitamin 'N'
• Listen to your children
• Do stuff with your kids
• Handle meltdowns with dignity
• See the glass as half-full
• Stick to routines
• Get a life
• An A to Z of parenting stuff - resources, bibliography, references, index

About the authors 

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg was educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic, researcher and he spent 4 years working as a political lobbyist. Michael is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists. He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, and the resident psychologist with Channel Nine's Today Show. He has written several books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines. He has won many awards for his work. He is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. His other books include Adolescence - A Guide for Parents, The Princess Bitchface Syndrome, Real Wired Child, Surviving Adolescents, Surviving Year 12 and Surviving Step-Families .

Most importantly, Michael is married and has two children, supports Hawthorn in the AFL and South Sydney in the NRL. In 2000, he was the subject of a This Is Your Life program on Channel 9. He works in private practice in Melbourne.

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Strictly Parenting by Michael Carr-Gregg and Erin Shale