Jamie Raser

Raising Children You Can Live With: a Guide for Frustrated Parents Jamie Raser

Publisher Marketing: After almost forty years' experience helping parents and children, family therapist and clinical social worker Jamie Raser, LMFT, LCSW, noticed a common element missing from even the best parenting books. While the parenting techniques provided are often excellent, and most parenting authors stress the importance of positive relationships, few, if any, books tell parents what makes a successful parent-child relationships and how to build them. Parenting is not a series of "techniques" or "manipulations" designed to control a child. Rather, parenting is a relationship, built from the many brief but vital interactions between parent and child. With this in mind, Raser argues that parents need to understand human interactions to effectively raise children. Raser describes "interactions" as the myriad, momentary connections between two people, both verbal and nonverbal. Interactions form the foundation of any relationship, for good or ill. Negative interactions sabotage parenting techniques that would otherwise prove effective. "Raising Children You Can Live With" examines how poor-quality interactions affect troubled children and parenting outcomes, demonstrating how shifting to positive interaction cycles improves parenting efficiency while maintaining a child's dignity and independence. Raser supports his specific suggestions with thirteen scenarios of common child-parent problems, showing how both negative and positive interactions affect each scenario and its outcome. Learn to control the interaction, not the child. You'll see a radical improvement in your parenting abilities and your child's behavior.