Winner's Book Club Selection of the Week: How To Parent

"How to Parent," by Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson

When our boys were born I bought and read every book on parenting in the book store.

This one was one of the best. The information, the attitude and the philosophy of this book really hit home with me. It provided me with a lot of valuable guidance as a new parent raising two energetic boys.

What I didn’t expect was that I received a lot of foundational insight that I found also applied to business as well.

You can’t be successful in business without people and keeping them working and growing together as a team has a lot of parallels to raising a family. This book will help you understand how to deal with many situations and give you confidence to trust your own instincts.

That’s a little insight to why this book has been such a top seller for decades.

Here’s what others who have used the book have to say about it's value.

Review #1 by Kathy Williams (kwilliams@texoma.net) (Sherman, Texas)

Twenty-four years ago, a friend sent me a copy of this book. My first child was a few months old. I am the oldest of five children and had a fair amount of experience with young children who had been raised in a loving and independence-oriented family. I also had extensive college-level instruction in psychology and believed most of the theory I had been exposed to did not match my experience with living human beings. >>read more<<

Review #2 By A Customer

I bought this book in the early 70's when my youngest daughter was born and I became a single parent. I found Dodson's methods made complete sense and felt natural to me, encouraging the practical use of his techniques (his 10 commandments) which were as much for my benefit as my daughter's. >>read more<<

Review #3 By A Customer

This is the absolutely best childrearing book I have read in the past 30 years. I credit Dr. Dodson with much of my children's best parenting. They have turned out to be incredibly wonderful people, and I am thrilled that this book is available again to a new generation of struggling-to-be-good parents. This book really took a lot of the guesswork out of the task for me. If your own childhood left you with a less than satisfying foundation to be a parent: get this book. It will make you a better person and it will give your kids what they need: Good Parenting—no, GREAT parenting!