No Regrets Parenting: Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids

by Harley A. Rotbart

Overview

Between soccer practices, work meetings, school fundraisers, housework, homework, and everything else you jam into a 24-hour day, finding the time to have quality moments with your children can be difficult. In No Regrets Parenting, pediatric and family specialist Dr. Rotbart provides the simple truth about how fast childhood passes, and how to stretch and enhance the time you do have with your kids.

No Regrets Parenting blends practical suggestions and tips with no-nonsense advice about parenting. Specialist Dr. Rotbart doesn't call for you to be a tiger mom, helicopter parent, free-range parent, soccer mom, or any other parenting trend du jour—he just provides simple, straightforward ideas so you can give your kids what they need to succeed, and give yourself what you need to feel like a successful parent.

Topics focus on everything from school and sleep to fitness and entertainment. You will still miss your kids when they leave home, but with No Regrets Parenting, you won't miss them when they're at home. The days are long, but the years are short. And now is the time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449410940
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	02/21/2012
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	486,070
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Harley Rotbart has been a pediatric specialist for the past 28 years and is the professor and vice chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Denver. He is a nationally recognized parenting expert, speaker, and educator and is the author of more than 175 medical and scientific publications. Dr. Rotbart and his wife use the strategies presented inside No Regrets Parenting with their three children. He and his family currently reside in Denver, Colorado.

Dr. Harley Rotbart has been a pediatric specialist for the past 28 years and is the professor and vice chairman of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Denver. He is a nationally recognized parenting expert, speaker, and educator and is the author of more than 175 medical and scientific publications. Dr. Rotbart and his wife use the strategies presented inside No Regrets Parenting with their three children. He and his family currently reside in Denver, Colorado.

Editorial Reviews

In quick hits, small bites, and short lists of essential, commonsense and occasionally creative advice, pediatrician Rotbart answers a parent’s three most commonly asked questions: what do my kids need from me? what must I do to be a good parent? how can I avoid feeling guilty for not doing everything? His aim is to help parents maximize and optimize time spent with their kids and realize that there is ample opportunity for active and passive positive interaction every day, from crib through college. This is a busy parent’s time management guide, demonstrating how to find balance, turn “minutes into moments,” develop reliable parental intuition, and transform everyday routines into special times, without neglecting personal and professional responsibilities. Part one has instructions for providing the “Eight Essentials” of security, stability, consistency, emotional support, love, education, positive role models, and structure; dispelling the disastrous, desperate “3Ds”—distraction, distortion, and deception; and developing mindfulness techniques. Part two provides 60 specific strategies covering all aspects of child-rearing from sleep, school, and nutrition to entertainment, outdoor activities, communication, and spirit and soul. A wonderful epilogue about sending kids off to college congratulates parents for their good work. Time passes all too fast, and when the kids do leave home, readers who followed Rotbart’s blueprint will greet their children’s departure with satisfaction of a job well done and the acknowledgment thereof. Agent: Lisa Leshne, LJK Literary Management. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

One of "10 Best Books for Thinking Parents" (Parenting Magazine)

"My office is littered with 'parenting books'...The books, as abundant as they are, aren't helping. But Dr. Rotbart's 'No Regrets Parenting' is something special..." (KJ Dell'Antonia, New York Times)

"Dr. Rotbart's book turned my head around." (Dana Points, Editor-in-Chief, Parents Magazine)

"Puts the control back in the parent's hands by focusing on the time a parent does have with children, instead of focusing on the time the parent doesn't have." (Cara Lemieux, ABC News)

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