Parenting In The Fast Lane

In today's hectic world, parents are constantly juggling work, chores, and social commitments, often at the expense of quality time with their children. This comprehensive guide provides practical strategies and tools to help busy parents overcome the challenges of time management and create a healthy, harmonious family life. Learn how to: Maximize your time: Discover effective techniques for prioritizing tasks, setting realistic goals, and creating schedules that work for your family. Reconnect with your children: Find creative ways to spend quality time with your kids, even with a packed schedule. Achieve work-life balance: Implement strategies to manage work commitments while still being present for your family. Model healthy habits: Teach your children valuable time management skills through your own actions. This book is a must-read for any parent struggling to balance the demands of a busy life with the desire to nurture a loving and fulfilling family environment

Timothy Smith challenges today's frantic pace and offers helpful solutions to families who are missing out on togetherness because of overscheduling. Simple Solutions for Families in the Fast Lane will help families connect with each other in meaningful ways in spite of work, school, extracurricular activities, and other responsibilities.

Timothy Smith challenges today's frantic pace and offers helpful solutions to families who are missing out on togetherness because of overscheduling. Simple Solutions for Families In the Fast Lane will help families connect with each other in meaningful ways in spite of work, school, extracurricular activities, and other responsibilites.

Children today want to be footloose, fast, and free. As a result, many lack respect for their parents, teachers, authority figures, elders, and themselves. While parents are busy elsewhere, children have created lives of their own, looking to the internet, TV programs, peers, social media, and music for guidance. Their thinking becomes distorted. Life, they believe, will hand them a shortcut to instant success through sex, drugs, and attitude. They are heading down a road to destruction. The enemy—that old serpent Satan—is behind it all. He came to shake up the parents so he can manipulate the kids. Parents, it is time to pray. Kids in the Fast Lane: Drivin’ Too Fast with Sex, Drugs, and Attitude was written to wake parents and kids up. We need to understand the enemy's tactics so that he will not destroy our children. In Proverbs 29:15, the Bible says, “the rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.” If parents make the time and effort to pray for guidance and correct and discipline their children, we may be able to keep the enemy at bay and raise up a generation who will serve God rather than the devil.

While advice abounds from a variety of sources before parents embark on their parenting journeys, the only parent preparation we actually receive comes from our family and peer stories. Yet most adults do not realize that in day-to-day challenges of guiding our children, something interesting happens. As we steer our children through life, we reopen our own childhood roads. Just when our child most needs us, we become needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and influence many of the parenting decisions we make, even though we’re unaware of those influences at times. Fortunately, children help parents reach their needs as much as their parents help them fulfill their own. Our child ends up guiding us, by connecting us to some earlier time in our life when we encountered distress. We dredge up a lesson, and we adapt by adhering to or changing the story that we tell ourselves about who we are. We re-negotiate the five basic needs that surface from our childhood memories as our youngsters pass through each of the developmental phases. The self-aware parent focuses on creative problem solving by focusing on one interaction at a time. It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent offers an exploration of how our own childhood memories and needs influence and shape our parenting decisions in our adult lives. Offering tips, stories from a variety of families, and step by step exercises, Janis Johnston helps parents better understand and grasp the tools necessary to face parenting challenges head on, and to explore new ways of understanding ourselves, our children, and our family interactions. Expectant parents and current parents interested in understanding their own personality development as well as the many moods of childhood and their own children, will find clear guidelines for understanding their roles in their children’s lives as well as concrete suggestions for how to navigate the choppy waters of raising children.

He was an NFL superstar and Drag Racing icon. He had Hollywood starlets on his arm and a legion of fans in the palms of his hands. Dan Pastorini lived on the edge and palye don the brink. No oneleast of all Pastoriniknew what the next turn would bring. His life was indulgent, brilliant, cursed and humbling. He was known a s the toughest man in football, a cover-boy heart-throb and a soft-hearted friend. He changed the way NFL quarterbacks played the game, donning the first Flak Jacket to protect three shattered ribs. He threw perhaps the most fateful pass in playoff history, a controversial championship moment that led to use of NFL replay. He was involved in a tragic speed boating accident. He beat Big Daddy Don Garlits and all of drag racings best. He was the hero in the most triumphant return an NFL team ever received. He never backed down from anything or anyone, falling into notorious scraped and life-altering lows. He married a Playboy model and posed for Playgirl. He dated Farrah Fawcett and was the most iconic figure in a Wild West era when Texas oil boomed and gluttony prevailed. Dan Pastorini never has told the whole story. Until now. This is the story of a gifted, hard-driving kid from California who never stopped going fast or chasing dreams. No matter how much flak he took.

"The authors conducted a prevention program called Fast Track, consisting of multicomponent, home-school prevention activities carried out with at-risk children from first to 10th grades over a 10-year period, to prevent serious antisocial behavior and youth violence and achieve positive social, emotional, and academic outcomes. They describe the research that informed the design of the program as part of their Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, how the study was implemented, and outcomes up to 20 years later. They discuss the context for youth violence prevention in the US; the developmental and intervention research that informed the design of the program; the study design and the children and families who participated in it; interventions and impacts in elementary, middle, and high school years; early adult outcomes of the program; implications for developmental theory and research on the prevention of violence; and how communities can address the problem of future violence by focusing on high-risk young children."--Provided by publisher.

LONGING TO SLOW DOWN? Are you feeling overwhelmed with the frantic pace of your life and struggling to parent in this place? Do you long to choose less in a world of abundant more? Is your reality a continuous to-do list, which never ends? Do you just want to press 'pause' so you can find your footing in a calm space? If so, you aren't alone, as families, universally, are experiencing exactly the same busy lifestyle, and desire a re-set. Catherine shares her own story of transitioning from a messy and chaotic life to the discovery of slow parenting, embracing once again, the beauty of a simple childhood, without the feeling of missing out on anything of value. Why not identify your family's own unique rhythm in this world and find freedom in a slower pace, starting today?

Teenage parenthood is recognised as a significant disadvantage in western industrialised nations. It has been found to increase the likelihood of poverty and to reinforce inequalities. This book explores, for the first time, the links between welfare state provision and teenage reproductive behaviour across a range of countries with differing welfare regimes. Drawing on both welfare state and feminist literature, as well as on new empirical evidence, the book compares public policy responses to teenage parenthood in each 'family' of welfare regime: Nordic, Liberal and Continental (Western European); analyses the different socio-political contexts in which teenage pregnancy is constructed as a social problem and identifies best practice in Europe and the USA. Countries included in the study are the UK, USA, New Zealand, France, Italy, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Canadian province of Quebec and Russia. The contributors are all internationally recognised experts in the fields of welfare and/or gender studies. When children become parents is important reading for a wide audience of students, policy makers, practitioners and academics in sociology, social policy, social geography, education, psychology, and youth and gender studies.