ScreamFree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
Runkel, Hal Edward. 2008. ScreamFree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool. Colorado Springs, Colorado: WaterBrook Press.
The key to this book is one idea: Be responsible to your children, not for your children. Be responsible enough to stay cool and collected no matter what one of your children does. Be responsible enough to take care of yourself, so that you can be at your best as a parent. Be responsible enough to keep growing for you, and it will make you work better with your kids.
But this book is not just for parenting. Many of Runkel’s ideas apply equally well to building a stronger relationship with your partner, learning to interact better with your parents, even working more effectively with business colleagues. In fact, lots of his ideas apply to virtually any interaction that you can imagine.
Also, this is simply a great read. Runkel scatters examples and great stories throughout this book. He also helps readers focus their thinking through questions at the end of each chapter.
From now on, I’ll think differently about every interaction.