Pick Up Your Socks . . . and Other Skills Growing Children Need!: A Practical Guide to Raising Responsible Children - Paperback

by Elizabeth Crary (Author), Pati Casebolt (Illustrator)

Teaching adults how to identify reasonable expectations for different ages, this guide discusses situations that call for obedience and those that call for a child taking responsibility. It provides parents with useful information for instilling responsibility in their children, answering questions about discipline, household chores, homework, and independent living skills, and demonstrates how to help kids build skills in decision making, problem solving, memory, and motivation. In addition to fostering harmony in the home, these skills will help children grow into competent adults.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Crary is the award-winning author of more than 40 children's and child-guidance publications. She has taught parenting education, with an emphasis on problem-solving and skill-building methods, and established Parenting Press in 1979. Pati Casebolt is an illustrator. They both live in Seattle.