It's Not Rocket Science: Down-to-Earth Advice on Raising Stellar Kids

by Alice Licata

Unlike many parent books which focus on the child's behavior,emphasis here is on parental behavior.Few things are more important than raising our children to be well-adjusted,productive people.Now in an increasingly complex,media-overloaded,maze-like world, parents need to know the essentials of truly successful parenting more than ever.Based on her specialized training and professional practice in psychology as well as her hands-on experiences as a parent,Dr. Alice Licata presents her positive approach,unique in its simplicity,eschewing formulaic for a fresh, highly readable,and widely applicable strategy.Dr. Licata emphasizes a fundamental principle which can offer answers to nearly every parenting concern and challenge.With engaging chapters such as"Be a Pachyderm","It's Not You, It's Me",and"You Too Can be a Supermodel",this book is replete with practical examples and advice as well as touching anectodes--a must-read for all parents wanting to avoid the too common pitfalls of today's childrearing.

134 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Armed with a newly minted doctorate degree in Psychology from Kent State in northeast
Ohio, Alice Licata spent years in Charlottesville,Virginia walking the halls of academia and offering her psychological expertise to the community there before turning her energies toward another passion: raising her two daughters. Inspired, she wrote It’s Not Rocket Science: Down-to-Earth Advice on Raising Stellar Kids, hoping to empower other parents. When her girls were fully launched, one into the acting world and the other into medicine, she returned to teaching—this time, grades 6-12. In the classroom, she makes it her mission to ensure today’s kids still know how to use a good old-fashioned dictionary and tell time on an analog clock. She has also been a high school diving coach for the past 20 years, helping her student athletes reach new heights both on and off the diving board. Growing up a closet book nerd (erstwhile social butterfly, always secretly wishing she was home with a good book), Alice finally came into her own as a novelist after years assuming this was well beyond her grasp. After all, a great book felt like magic to her. Now, she hopes to bring a tiny bit of this magic into the world with her own writing. And in keeping with her background, she also seeks to perhaps offer paths to greater understanding of the human psyche and all its foibles for her readers. Alice currently resides in Dayton, Ohio with her two remaining yet-to-leave-the-nest [canine] kids, Pixie and Pebbles. She enjoys walking these spirited Terrier mixes through the many rolling hills of her neighborhood, savoring the little things and contemplating her next book project.

Reviews

[Louise · Rating 5 out of 5]

She really has a knack for the most basic premises of parenting. This book is a great and must read for any parent.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a practical and readable book about parenting.