Introduction

This book was written with a very specific goal in mind:

To shake you up; to get your attention. Most parenting books are written to help get you "on track." We want to knock you off your track.

Somewhere along the line, parent and child roles have been reversed. Children are running their parents. You would not believe how many parents come to us with children from ages two to thirty-two who are literally holding their parents hostage. It would be impossible to count the number of parents who tell us about their troubled children and plead with us to solve their children's problems. In every case, without exception, we know that if there is a child with a problem, there is a parent who cannot run his or her own show.

This is a book about parents. Successful parents. The kind of parent you want to be, and the kind of parent you want your child to grow up to be. There are hundreds of books about children and what you should do for them. What is missing on the bookshelves is a book about parents and what they should do for themselves. This book will not tell you about potty-training or how to handle a teenager who talks too much on the phone. Instead, you will learn WIN-WIN PARENTING, a model of parenting that holds true to the belief that only when the parent wins first, can the child win.

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