Douglas Haddad - The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens: Strategies for Unlocking Your Childs Full Potential

Praise for The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens

Douglas Haddad delivers parents a no fail approach to raising children. If you could read only one book to help children become successful and reach their unlimited potential, The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens has everything you need and is the one to get! Jack Canfield , multiple #1 New York Times and USA Today best-selling coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul series; success coach; and human potential thought leader

Dr. Dougs tools for the 3 Ss are a MUST for all parents! There are so many challenges that children deal with these days, and Dr. Doug truly gets it! His advice will help you gain the confidence you need to handle problems effectively and make the right choices so you can help your child succeed in every way. Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Happy For No Reason , Love for No Reason , Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul

This book is a window into Dr. Haddads world of practical insights, methods, and tools that have made him a highly effective teacher. As Simsburys 2016 Teacher of the Year, Dr. Haddads passion for science, his fun and engaging teaching style, and his results in the classroom make him stand out among the best. Matthew Curtis , superintendent of Simsbury Public Schools in Connecticut

If creating a more fulfilling relationship with your children and seeing them grow into inspired and empowered individuals where they are living a productive and meaningful life in highest accordance with their highest values are your goals, then applying the tools found within The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens can certainly bring you those results. John Demartini , DC, international best-selling author of The Values Factor ; educator and human behavioral specialist

Dr. Haddads generous, highly readable new book The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens could not be more appropriately titled. Through anecdotes and research, Doug thoroughly walks parents through the importance of empathy and strength in parenting in order to foster a smart, successful, self-disciplined child. He then comprehensively takes on each of the critical challenges and pitfalls faced by todays teens and tweens from drug use to sexuality and beyond. I cannot recommend the book enough. You will find it to be an invaluable and urgent read today, as well as an important reference for many years to come. John Duffy , PhD, #1 best-selling author of The Available Parent as featured on Steve Harvey

Dr. Haddad has been an instrumental contributor to Parenting Special Needs Magazine for more than six years. He is an exceptional writer who never fails to deliver positive, extremely well-written articles that contain information, knowledge, and experience that benefit parents and their children. He is a valued and valuable member of this special needs community. Chantai Snellgrove , founder/editorial director, Parenting Special Needs Magazine

Thanks to Dr. Haddads vision, advice, and knowledge in educational technology and understanding the market, our company has been able to successfully introduce and market the Forbrain product at a global level. Dr. Haddad has been a great education ambassador for us and has been instrumental in helping our company grow. Gregoire Tomatis , cofounder of Sound for Life, Ltd.; director at Tomatis Dveloppement S.A.

Todays parents have a good idea of the challenges they face in trying to guide their children through the hazardous tween-teen years. From cyberspace to drugs, from sexuality to motivation, from eating disorders to depressionsuccessfully negotiating these years so as to emerge a physically, emotionally, and psychologically healthy adult is a daunting task for these children and their parents. Dr. Haddad provides parents with a road map for facing those tasks. Practical advice is what these parents seek, and practical advice is what they will find here. In a veritable tour of these crucial years, parents learn valuable information, presented concisely in plain language, as well as crucial advicethe dos and donts that can make the difference between success and failure. Joseph Nowinski , PhD, author of The Divorced Child: Strengthening Your Family through the First Three Years of Separation

A thoughtful, authoritative, and practical guide that will help parents guide their children through the tween and teenage years. Carl Honor , author of Under Pressure: Putting the Child Back in Childhood

Douglas Haddad has written a comprehensive how-to for parentsspecifically for those whose children are in or nearing the tweens and teens. Because these are such formative and potentially difficult years for parents, Dr. Haddad presents very practical and workable solutions to the parenting issues of our day in a manner that can be assimilated into virtually any family scenario. This is a manual that can soften some of the harsh blows of these ages when families are committed to developing successful and contributing adults to Americas future. Tom Ziglar , CEO, Ziglar, Inc.

Douglas Haddad, PhD, affectionately known as Dr. Doug, brings his years of experience to one of the most critical challenges facing parents: how to raise smart, successful, and self-disciplined children. Our childrens worlds are full of amazing opportunity and daunting dangers. Hazards like drugs or bullying, violence or despair, may cause a premature exit on this path to a fulfilling and productive life for our children. Helping to navigate this developmental highway is the privilege of the parent. Focusing on tweens and teens, Dr. Doug provides concise and practical strategies and exercises that engage parents and their children, building relationships, and paving the path to a productive future. Joseph Shrand , MD, Chief of Adolescent Psychiatry, High Point Treatment Centers; medical director, CASTLE

In The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens , Dr. Haddad asks the important questions that we need to be asking both ourselves as parents, as well as ourselves as a society in how we raise the next generation. Navigating parenthood without a manual is a mix of trial and error, underscored by our own fears and patterning. The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens acts as that guide, with sound research, questions that get us to challenge our current ways of raising kids, and straightforward steps and solutions. I highly, highly recommend all parents read this. This is my new parenting handbook. Kate OBrien , Voice for Empowered Feminine Leadership; creator of GameChanger and founder of GameChanger Global Summit

Ive seen Dr. Doug on television discussing different educational tools to engage learning, motivation, and keeping a childs mind active. He understands the child and realizes how important interactive technology is both at home and in the classroom. Stephanie Jimenez , senior account executive, SSPR Public Relations Agency

The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens

Strategies for Unlocking Your Childs Full Potential

Douglas Haddad

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Names: Haddad, Douglas, 1976 author.