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Your Family Constitution: A Modern Approach to Family Values and Household Structure
enlarge	Author: Scott Gale Publisher: Spectrum International Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$15.95~~ Buy New: $11.96 as of 11/7/2009 13:51 PST details You Save: $3.99 (25%) New (6) Used (2) from $6.23 Seller: Amazon.com Media: Paperback Pages: 128 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.4 ISBN: 0982296134 Dewey Decimal Number: 649 EAN: 9780982296134 ASIN: 0982296134 Publication Date: January 15, 2010 (In 69 Days) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description What do you get when you cross two working professionals, two active kids and a dog? Chaos! For more than a decade, Scott Gale and his wife, Karen, juggled three bowling bowls- kids, personal needs, and careers. Clear and consistent expectations simply did not factor into their frantic lifestyle. In the wake of a Mother's Day family meltdown, Gale took time to evaluate his family's challenges and induce change, piecing together a powerful tool to restore family harmony. This 'Family Constitution' became the catalyst for clarity, consistency and commitment ('3C's), enabling his family to enjoy mutually understood boundaries and much-needed structure. Your Family Constitution shares Gale's innovative parenting tool and, more importantly, reveals the step-by-step process he went through to become a happier and more effective parent. He guides readers through the rewarding process of creating their own custom Family Constitution, while sharing many hilarious and personal accounts of parenting successes and failures. Your Family Constitution is a life-changing technique that parents can easily apply to make their own families stronger.

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 14 1 2 3 Next » Get this book October 29, 2009 D Avid Reader (Calif, USA) This books offers a realistic way to help families build a harmonious household. unlike so many books on kids and families, this book is a great practical resource. I liked the fact that it provides specific examples to help you teach your children - and yourself - constructive relationship problem solving. the book really delivers. A fresh approach to parenting in the modern world October 12, 2009 Alaine - Queen of Happy Endings (Queensland, Australia) If you are stressed out with all the pressures of juggling work and family life then this is a book I'd highly recommend to you. Scott Gale tells the story of his own family crisis and what lead up to it with refreshing honesty and frankness. Through his own experience he helps you identify your own families 'core issues' without preaching to you, rather the book is written in such a way that it makes you feel as if you are having a conversation. One of my favourite things about this book is that it believes in equality for all. I absolutely loved the idea that Scott had to work out 3 times a week to be able to sit down and watch football on Sundays. This book helps you set out incentives for not just the kids in the family but the parents and adults as well. I think this is the first parenting book I've ever read, and believe me I've read a lot over the 23 years of my own parenting, that includes the parents. What a fantastic and exciting idea! This past weekend my pregnant daughter and her husband moved back into our home so that they can save money to buy a house. So we've gone from being a household of 5 to 7 overnight, with 5 of the household members being adults. Having not forgotten how difficult it was prior to them moving out at the beginning of this year I really wanted to avoid some of the 'issues' that we've had in the past. But I thought I had a well thought out plan of assigning choirs etc, then I read Your Family Constitution. My main concern with living in a household of adults is that my youngest son is only 10 and it's so easy for his needs to be overlooked. Reading this book has given me many ideas on how I can make this big adjustment work for our family. Whilst my family dynamic is completely different to the authors I have been able to get many ideas that will help my current situation. Honestly when I received this book for review I thought it would be a nice read but didn't really think I had anything to learn from it. My household runs relatively smoothly without the need for yelling and only occasional stress, but I was wrong and have gained enormously from reading this book. I plan on reading it again this week and I've asked my daughter who is six months pregnant with her first child to read it. I highly recommend this wonderful book as I think every parent can gain something from it! stop the chaos before it begins August 24, 2009 ReneeSuz (northern Alabama) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful Scott Gale begins his book describing the day he felt he hit rock bottom as a parent. Maybe because I have more children, maybe because I'm older or maybe because my children are older but I was mostly unable to relate to his situation. He went on to list the reasons for his family's dysfunction: 1)lack of time (my dh and I purposely make time for ourselves in and among the demands of parenthood and my dh's job), 2)lack of clarity (may be an issue in our house but I am the parent and so I reserve the right to limit TV one day and let the children veg in front of it another), 3)lack of consistency (not much of an issues especially not involving bedtime, schoolwork or chores) and 4)lack of commitment to improvement (we talk when things get out of hand and get back on track). This book would be a good book for parents of young school age children that want to get things in order before their parenting becomes chaotic and also their lives. The methods for developing a family constitution focus on "3-C's" - clarity, consistency and commitment. Thank you to Bostick Communications for the opportunity to read and review this book. For men and women striving to form, nurture, instill, and live the values they hold dear August 6, 2009 Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) We hear a lot about 'Family Values' -- especially from politicians and preachers who, we later discover, don't practice what they preach. But the values that hold a family together, the values that parents want to inculcate into their children, the values so fundamentally necessary to a civilized and just society are critically important -- far too important to leave up to the politicians and the preachers. That's why "Your Family Constitution: A Modern Approach To Family Values And Household Structure" by Scott Gale is so valuable for men and women striving to form, nurture, instill, and live the values they hold dear. "Your Family Constitution" is a thoroughly 'user friendly' step-by-step instruction manual and guide to establishing a value transferring relationship with children, anticipating and resolving commonly encountered family issues, improving and securing communication within the family, and deriving satisfaction and enjoyment from living those values as a parent within the context of one's own family every day. Wise wonderful book!! July 21, 2009 MotherLodeBeth (Sierras of California) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful In a period when so many families seem to be hit and miss with sitting watching tv is the main group activity I loved this book. Mainly because it brings the focus back to the family unit which indeed is a unit that needs rules in order to be smooth sailing on issues like cohesiveness, finances, sense of worth, earned self esteem. Until our son went off to university we pretty much had a family constitution or contract where everyone knew income and out go, food budgets, energy waste issues, chores everyone needed to pitch in to do in order that everyone had more free time. The book is wonderful for teaching value lessons and is laid out well in explaining what a family constitution or family contract can do to make a better, stronger family, but its can also end up saving you money and well as stress. Showing reviews 1-5 of 14 1 2 3 Next »

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