5 Parenting Rules That Don't Work: How to Separate Fact from Fiction
by James Lehman, MSW

Learn the 5 most ineffective parenting techniques

Even before you become a parent, you start forming ideas about how you’ll raise your child. You get advice about it from all sides—your own parents and family, your friends, and books by so-called experts tell you "the rules" of good parenting. But most people soon find out that some of these techniques are simply fads—and many of them don’t work at all. Read on to see what James Lehman thinks are the top five most ineffective parenting concepts out there.



	We had so many great submissions for our first contest of 2010, it was hard to choose just ten winners! Thanks to everyone who wrote in with their parenting mistakes and great solutions. Each winning entry will receive James
Lehman's new book, Transform Your Problem Child, and will be featured in our blog. Please click here to see the list of winners. Read More …

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One-Minute Transformations

*Tell Them to Do it Once* Are you tired of nagging your child to do homework and chores? In this month's OMT, James explains how to "Tell Them to Do it Once"
in his unique, no-nonsense style.

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"Your Child is Not Your Equal"

The EP Forums
Where Parents Empower Each Other

What Parents are Talking about Now:
This week a single mom writes in about her struggles with her 8-year-old son:

"I am new to this forum and have been reading but not posted yet. I have a long-ish story (as we all do) but will try to make it short and to the point...my 8-year-old has always been challenging, for lack of a better word. His father and I separated and divorced in 2006...My parenting style is very different from his. I hate to yell, will follow through with consequences and try to be as consistent as possible..."

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EP Podcast
Dr. Bob Myers: Raising Teens with ADHD

This month’s podcast: How to use consequences and rewards with your ADHD/ADD teen

Dr. Bob Myers explains how to use a system of consequences and rewards with ADHD/ADD preteens and teens. For young kids, star charts and reward systems work well, but how do you parent adolescents with ADHD effectively? Dr. Bob tells you how in this month's podcast.