Duct Tape Parenting: A Less Is More Approach to Raising Respectful, Responsible, and Resilient Kids

by Vicki Hoefle Narrated by Vicki Hoefle

Overview

A witty, straight-shooting parenting book to help parents build a solid relationship with their kids, improve childrens behavior and decision-making, and prepare kids to steer their own futures-while laughing a little along the way.

There's a new set of 3Rs for our kids-respect, responsibility, and resilience-to better prepare them for life in the real world. Once developed, these skills let kids take charge, and let parents step back, to the benefit of all. Casting hover mothers and helicopter parents aside, Vicki Hoefle encourages a different, counter-intuitive, yet much more effective, approach to parenting: for parents to sit on their hands, stay on the sidelines-even if duct tape is required!

Witty and straight-shooting, Duct Tape Parenting entertains as it informs parents how to do less in order to raise more confident, capable children.

Includes a foreword by Alex Kajitani, the 2009 California Teacher of the Year and Finalist National Teacher of the Year.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Audio

Vicki Hoefle delivers a useful guide that looks to nurture strong and meaningful relationships between parents and children via the principles of respect, responsibility, and resilience. At its core, Hoefle’s emphasis is on silencing the parents (via duct tape) to hear and better respond to what is communicated by their children. Hoefle narrates this audio edition with mixed results. Her tone conveys an understanding of the challenges facing parents as well as the importance of doing what is right for children. However, her performance at times falters, with overly long pauses and a lilting delivery. And while this works to make the narration more conversational, it also feels disruptive to the listening experience. A Bibliomotion paperback. (Feb.)

From the Publisher

"[Hoefle’s] conjuncture that a misbehaving child is a discouraged child carries the weight of truth. By letting kids work out their own kinks, parents will have more time in the long run to enjoy their children and the parenting journey." – Library Journal, August 2013

AUGUST 2013 - AudioFile

A veteran parent educator narrates her finely tuned lesson on helping children grow into responsible adults. Though she sounds like she wants to be engaged and helpful, Hoefle’s otherwise pleasant speaking voice sounds somewhat pedantic and lacking in energy. It’s not a good vehicle for this program. Using examples of many kinds of parent-child struggles, she shows how careless parenting reinforces kids to rely too much on others and not enough on themselves. By saying and doing less (thus, the duct tape to keep us quiet), parents create a space in which kids figure out their own solutions. The advice, based on familiar psychological principles, is a good reminder that beleaguered parents have thoughtful options for influencing children, rather than defaulting into reactive authoritarian approaches, doing what’s expedient, or going passive. T.W. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169981568
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	02/26/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged

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