Parenting Project: Build Extraordinary Relationships With Your Kids Through Daily Conversation

by Alamar Amy, Kristine Schlichting

In a world full of many influences, The Parenting Project shows you how to become the main influencer in your child's life.

Are you losing the influence game with your children? If you want to direct your child's growth, then they need to get to know you. In The Parenting Project, parenting experts Dr. Amy Alamar and Dr. Kristine Schlichting show you how to speak with your children on a regular basis to gain their trust. In a time when your child has many things vying for their attention, you want to be the person they turn to the most for advice and comfort.

Sometimes it's difficult to speak with your children about serious subjects. That's why The Parenting Project teaches you how to make a habit of it, providing you with prompts to help start potentially difficult conversations across a broad range of subjects that apply to everyday life. The authors have divided these conversations into five categories to inform your approach--Heart-based, Difficult, Dangerous, Character, and Brave--because each type requires different strategies and "conversation starters."

With some help from Dr. Alamar and Dr. Schlichting, it will be easier than ever to open up conversations with (rather than at) your children so that when the big questions arise, your child will turn to you first.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

Published November 20, 2018

Reviews

[Patty (IheartYA311) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Concise and well-written but not ground breaking. The Parenting Project is chock full of useful conversation prompts and activities. Reading this book will remind you to be patient, constructive, and listen.

Thank you to Goodreads for granting me a copy through Giveaways.

[Ann T]

Thank you Quatro - Four Winds Publishing and Netgalley for an ARC of this book.

This book encourages opening up communication between your tweens and teens. It was an easy to read, engaging book with lots of conversation starters and reminders on the importance of strong communication.

I highly recommend and have purchased this book to refer back to regularly.

[Abby Wilfert · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book seems to be marketed as intellectual material given the usage of the word “Ph.D.” across the front and back cover. However, most of the contents were general anecdotes from the authors’ personal parenting experiences (which offer very little didactic value), the suggested conversation prompts are unnatural and sometimes inappropriate, and the colorful graphics on every other page attempt to convey substance where there is none. There is no bibliography to ground the recommendations in this ‘scholarly’ guidebook.

[Allison Pickett · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Parenting Project is all about conversations. The authors focus on the belief that a deep, healthy, and authentic relationship with our kids will give them the tools and strength they need to be amazing and healthy adults. I agree! I love the conversation starter ideas. The questions they offer may seem tough if you aren’t used to having more intentional conversations with your kids, but I’m guessing it gets easier and easier the more practice you have.
Side note: this book doesn’t quite apply to my family YET. I have four young children and The Parenting Project focuses on preteens and teenagers. In the future, however, I’d like to come back and reference this book. Also, there may be some points that you disagree with (maybe a few for me) but those are easily looked over to see the big picture.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Because this book is totally secular and therapeutic, I take several points of departure from specific advice given in this book. However, I find the sentiment of this book to be good, and this is still helpful for improving interpersonal skills.

[RaeAnn]

I only skimmed it, but it seemed like a helpful book about parents talking to their pre-teens and teens. A lot of it seems pretty basic, so good for someone who doesn't have a strong foundation of talking to their kids already.

[Lisa Wells · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well written- but not a lot that is ground breaking. It’s a good self coaching tool, esp for parents of tweens/teens.

[Vonn Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is more for older kids/teenagers. I’ll revisit this book once my kid is in that age bracket.
From what I could tell though, is that a lot of subjects about what teenagers could go through during those years are in this book.

[Jesica DeHart · Rating 5 out of 5]

I keep this book at the dining room table and pull it out to inspire deeper and more meaningful conversation. As a family, we have traveled the world together for a year and covered many topics but this book is inspiring us to get to know each other and ask questions that we hadn't yet thought of. This is a wise and wonderful book.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Be a parent is not easy. This book helps to pass through and give the best of us. The approach is genuine and realistic with real life examples.

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