You're Perfect and Other Lies Parents Tell: The Ugly Truth about Spoiling Your Kids

Think you re doing your kids a favor telling them what perfect angels they are? Think again.
Former Criminal Prosecutor, mother and stepmother Loni Coombs has witnessed too many times the shockingly negative effects of what most parents feel to be the very best parenting techniques. They think, I ll give my children what I never had, I ll pave their way to success, I ll take care of their problems, and then they re blindsided by their children s utter helplessness when it comes to thriving in the real world, their inability to get and keep a job, even their unexpected run-ins with the law. What went wrong? This book solves the mystery.
""The ugly truth parents need to face is that telling your children that they are perfect and shielding them from the consequences of their actions while insisting that every child gets a first-place trophy is not good parenting,"" says Coombs. You re Perfect is the urgent wake-up call that the parents of the Me Generation so desperately need, and the easy-to-implement information within its pages could change the course of millions of young lives for the better.
You re Perfect is your crash course in real-world parenting and will teach you:
The dangers you may be exposing your child to
How to transform your child's self-entitlement into self-control
How to get your children to treat you with respect
The warning signs indicating your child is at risk for delinquency
How to tackle drug and alcohol problems
When to invade your child's privacy
Whether you re holding a newborn in your arms or you ve got an 18-year-old spiraling out of control, this is the guide every parent should have to be prepared for the unexpected and to protect their children from society s dangerous pitfalls.