No matter how good their intentions are, all parents sometimes resort to quick-fix parenting: things we do to stop a kid's harmful or annoying behavior. Quick-fix parenting may temporarily ease a parent's stress level, but it does little to impact a child's future positively. Quick-fix parenting is a terrible long-term strategy for parenting. Intentional parenting is the opposite of quick-fix parenting. Intentional parenting is a way to raise children to become healthy, independent young adults. It's based on solid principles that, applied over time, result in less-stressed parents and happier, better-adjusted, and more successful kids. Intentional parenting means you've got more than good intentions; you've got a plan. (And it's always better to have a plan for dealing with the stuff that inevitably crops up between parents and their kids than it is to wing it.) In Intentional Parenting: 10 Ways to be an Exceptional Parent in a Quick-Fix World, Doug and Cathy Fields draw on their extended experience with young people and as parents to guide you through 10 specific actions to help you become a more effective parent.

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