This bundle includes all eight books in the Joy of Parenting series. Titles included are Successful Parenting, Parenting Goals Worth Achieving, What Every Kid Needs, Empowering Parent/Child Rights, Rewarding Parent/Child Relationships, Discipline that Actually Works, Raising a Responsible Child, and Raising a Moral Child.

In Successful Parenting Joy discusses six basic principles that can help make parenting easier and more enjoyable. The six are:

Value Your Child

Respect, Never Underestimate Your Child

Adopt a Realistic Approach Toward Parenting

Limit Your Involvement in Your Child’s Life to What is Reasonable and Fair

Practice What You Preach

Respect and Embrace the Process

Parenting Goals Worth Achieving deals with basic parenting goals. It focuses on understanding and establishing realistic objectives that can help keep the parenting focus on what is important instead of what is not. Topics covered include

Realistic Parenting Goals that Focus on what is Important

Goals Regarding What Kind of Person You Want Your Child to Be

Goals Regarding How You Want Your Child to Relate to Others

Keeping Your Parenting Goals on Track

What Every Child Needs deals with crucial strategies for understanding and addressing children’s needs. Topics include:

Understanding Your Child’s Basic Needs

Your Child’s Physical Needs

Your Child’s Emotional Needs

Your Child’s Intellectual Needs

Your Child’s Creative Needs

The Importance of Addressing Your Child’s Needs

Empowering Parent/Child Rights deals with basic parent/child rights. These rights form the foundation for mutual respect and fair treatment between parents and children.

The rights discussed include, the right to be yourself, the right to be honest, the right to get your needs met, the right to grow at your own pace, the right to get honest answers, the right to your own beliefs, the right to make mistakes, and much more.

Understanding these rights and the critical issue of balancing children’s rights with your responsibilities is an important part of parenting.

Rewarding Parent/Child Relationships deals with essential principles that help establish and maintain balanced, loving parent/child relationships. Topics include:

Parental Authority

Family Meetings

Shared Responsibilities

Balanced Relationships

Healthy Disagreements

Positive Interactions

Age Appropriate Relationship Builders

Discipline That Actually Works is a book on basic discipline. It discusses positive disciplinary techniques that teach and motivate good behavior. Topics include:

Understanding the Difference Between Discipline and Punishment

Avoiding Bad Behavior

Handling Misbehavior

Formulating Rules That Really Work

Using Age Appropriate Disciplinary Techniques

Motivating Good Behavior

Raising a Responsible Child is all about ways to help kids become responsible—now and for the future. Topics include:

The Need for Living Skills Education

Children and Irresponsibility

Common Misconceptions

Control that is Proportionate to Responsibility

The Resistance to Assuming Responsibility

Helping Children Become Responsible

Raising a Moral Child deals with raising moral children. It is about helping children find their moral compass. It covers the following subjects:

Expectations Regarding Children and Their Moral Development

Defining Morals

The Rationale for Teaching Morals

Teaching Morals

Teaching Morals through Firsthand Experiences

Understanding the Relationship Between Morals and Religion