Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Setting the Stage for Single Parenting
2. Changing Your Perception of Single Parenting
3. Coping with Feelings: Yours and Theirs
4. The Fine Art of Communication: Reading the Clues of Energy
5. Balancing, Juggling, and Other Single-Parenting Skills
6. Conquering the High Wire: Skills for Creating Balance
7. Life with a Single Mom or Dad: Your Relationship with Your Child
8. Single Parent Families Aren't "Broken": Practicing Cooperation and Encouragement
9. Family Meetings: Making Your Family a Team
10. Understanding Misbehavior: It Isn't Just Because You Are a Single Parent!
11. Getting Into Your Child's World: Positive Discipline in Action
12. Nonpunitive Discipline: Effective Tools for Single Parents
13. Beyond Single Parenthood: Taking Care of You
14. Unmarried with Children: Social Life and Significant Others
15. Your Child's Other Parent: After the Divorce
16. Creating a Respectful Coparenting Relationship
17. Celebrating Your Family
Conclusion
Index

About the Author

Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., coauthor of the bestselling Positive Discipline series, is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist. Her books have sold over a million copies. She lives in Salt Lake City.

Cheryl Erwin, M.A., is a marriage and family therapist and the coauthor of numerous books in Prima's POSITIVE DISCIPLINE series on raising great children. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

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