Decisions and Consequences: A Cop's Guide to Parenting Responsible Teenagers

by Eric Laughton, R.W. Jensen (Editor)

Decisions and A Cop's Guide to Parenting Responsible Teenagers You can’t protect your children 24/7, you must prepare them! After overcoming his own troubled past, Eric Laughton shares his insightful story that will help you pave the road ahead for raising responsible teens. Join Laughton as he walks you through his L.E.A.D. process… Lead - being a leader is vital! Evaluate - when you examine your own life, your children will naturally do the same! Attitude - your attitude determines altitude! Decide - determine what kind of children you want to raise and become that person yourself! Decisions and Consequences is a down-to-earth guidebook that will help you discover how your own bad habits “teach” teenagers to overreact emotionally and to underestimate the real consequences of their decisions. It’s time to take a hard look at your own life! Discover the ten bad habits you must avoid if you want to raise a responsible teen. While you can't change the mistakes you made in the past, you can pass those lessons, minus the hardship, to your children so that they don’t have to make the same mistakes. Eric explains the importance of letting your children see you make mistakes and the leadership role of taking them on the journey as you overcome them. Learn to establish trust with your teens. All children are leaders and all children are followers; uncover the difference between a productive follower & submissive follower & why it matters. The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. - Frank A. Clark Eric Laughton is a professional law enforcement officer, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force, leadership/self-improvement expert and the author of two 5-star rated "The 4M's of Success" and "The Success Success + Attitude = Mastering Life." He is a qualified motivational speaker and a John Maxwell Team coach, trainer and speaker. He is also a fitness expert and professional bodybuilder. Eric has branched out on his own, speaking professionally and training others with his two leadership LEAD and the 4Ms of Success.

127 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 17, 2015

About the author

Eric Laughton is a professional law enforcement commissioned officer, a military commissioned officer (Lt. Col.), leadership/self-improvement expert, and the author of the 5-star rated book "The 4M's of Success." He is a qualified motivational speaker and a John Maxwell Team coach, trainer and speaker. He is also a fitness expert and professional bodybuilder.

Eric has branched out on his own, speaking professionally and training others using his leadership formulas.

His first book, From Coma To Competition, is a true account of his near death experience and how he was able to turn tragedy into success, using his own 4M formula. Eric still suffers various medical conditions related to this experience but preservers through it.

His one goal with this and all his books, is simple: to bring hope to the hopeless to the ones who have suffered serious medical setbacks; to learn how to live despite what life throws at you; and how to use your attitude to succeed in life

Reviews

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book to help you with your parenting skills (and probably also in some other areas of your life).
I know from my own experiences how hard it is to handle teenagers and how easy it is to let the standards slip.
Laughton speaks from experience, not just as a parent but as reflective man who looks back at his own life and his mistakes. This is quite powerful and when you read through his steps and advice it is difficult to argue against him.
As a soft person, not all of the approach resonated well with me. The author is a cop and has a different mindset than me. Strangelt, that has helped teaching me a few tricks, thoguh. I wish more parents would read this book.
Short and compact this is very useful.

[Dermot Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Filled with great tips that go above and beyond common sense, a very handy guide to how to guide your teen during those difficult and trying years to adulthood. I especially liked the personal anecdotes of the author and the glimpse into what it was like for himself as a teenager; how he tried to fit in with the cool kids and found himself slip-sliding away down the wrong path to possible lawbreaking and almost certain jail time. Had he been found guilty of a crime that he did not commit but was a case of wrong identity, then his life could have turned out a lot differently. Lucky for us and hopefully numerous teenagers out there, that was not the case and the young man that tried to be bad to be cool ended up on the right side of the law and wearing a lawman's uniform.

[Sharon Brownlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like this honest, no nonsense take on handling on teenagers. Although a short book it does not lack on information, assurances, direction and decisions we make with our kids.
Eric Laughton's L.E.A.D comes from knowledge but more importantly it comes from the heart in this well written informative book.
Decisions and Consequences isn't judgemental but it is a good guide on parenting.
I realise every parent and teenager are different but I am sure they would find the information an asset

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Decisions and Consequences: A Cop’s Guide to Parenting Responsible Teenagers, by Eric Laughton, is indeed a helpful guide. Laughton experiences as a troubled teenager, parent, and 25 years as cop puts this book in a class by itself. There are excellent tips on raising teenagers into confident and responsible adults. My children are almost teenagers and Laughton’s advice will come in handy as they get older.

Well-written and easy to read. A must have guide for all parents.