What Happy Parents Do
When you're raising children, and especially when you're homeschooling them, it's all too easy for parents to lose their focus on themselves as a couple. It takes some extra effort to maintain a good relationship with your spouse when most of your daily activities revolve around the kids.
There's a fun new book that is here to help with the effort. It's called What Happy Parents Do, and it contains fifty hints, tips, and anecdotes about how to be a happy parenting couple, collected over the years by Carol J. Bruess and Anna D.H. Kudak, college professors specializing in interpersonal communication.
The book is set up in an easy-to-read format, with colorful graphics and creative fonts, designed to be picked up and randomly thumbed through when you need a little insight into just the right thing to do or say to spark your relationship.
The advice ranges from the serious to the silly, such as holding your own private dance party, making up secret nicknames for each other, or re-watching your wedding video. Whatever it takes to build and maintain a strong bond between a husband and wife that does not involve the children.
One of the most important things you can do for your kids is to model a happy marriage for them. What Happy Parents Do will definitely teach you ways to get beyond your hectic, child-centric day and back into being a loving, attentive couple.
Pick it up at your local bookstore, or find it at Amazon.
There's a fun new book that is here to help with the effort. It's called What Happy Parents Do, and it contains fifty hints, tips, and anecdotes about how to be a happy parenting couple, collected over the years by Carol J. Bruess and Anna D.H. Kudak, college professors specializing in interpersonal communication.The book is set up in an easy-to-read format, with colorful graphics and creative fonts, designed to be picked up and randomly thumbed through when you need a little insight into just the right thing to do or say to spark your relationship.
The advice ranges from the serious to the silly, such as holding your own private dance party, making up secret nicknames for each other, or re-watching your wedding video. Whatever it takes to build and maintain a strong bond between a husband and wife that does not involve the children.
One of the most important things you can do for your kids is to model a happy marriage for them. What Happy Parents Do will definitely teach you ways to get beyond your hectic, child-centric day and back into being a loving, attentive couple.
Pick it up at your local bookstore, or find it at Amazon.
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6 Comments:
Hey Phil,
Thanks for the find! This is an extremely important area that I think can be put aside as we focus so much on our kids.
I've gone and purchased the book.
All the best
Does careening with a shopping cart -- and two exhilarated kids hanging on for dear life -- through the long aisles of Wal-Mart count?
I can't agree more with your statement, "One of the most important things you can do for your kids is to model a happy marriage for them".
I have found with our three girls that that has had the most impact on their lives of almost anything we have done as parents. I believe kids who see their parents as two peopple who love each other and enjoy each other's company feel a bit more secure in this often unsecure world.
I love books like this..but hardly have time to read. I remember how I had always wondered why my parents never kiss each other in front of us kids..it's not in our tradition but I like them to demonstrate the love just like the couples I saw on TV. Now that I'm a parent myself..my hubby is not too co-operative too as we're Asian don't really show our affections but once in while I just plant a peck on his cheek in front of the kids..and they go "Eeeeyewww!"..and we had a good laugh!
Two things: 1) http://www.mytinykingdom.com
A lot about the kids, and quite a bit about maintaining your romantic relationship with your spouse.
2) My parents were affectionate to each other all the time. It was awesome. It still is. "Get a room!"
Demonstrating a happy marriage to your children is great if you can do it. In reality, I think demonstrating how to be a competent, grounded, truthful, complete, happy, responsible, charitable, compassionate adult (with or without a partner) is the important thing.
-Frannie
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