Part I: Understanding Your Children and Yourself.

Chapter 1: Becoming a Confident Parent.

Chapter 2: Knowing What Kind of Parent You Are – and Want to Become.

Chapter 3: Understanding Your Kids’ Needs.

Part II: Improving Your Basic Parenting Skills.

Chapter 4: Beginning with the End in Mind: Establishing Goals for Your Family.

Chapter 5: Communicating Effectively and Connecting with Your Children.

Chapter 6: Approaching Parenting With Common Sense.

Chapter 7: Maintaining Great Relationships.

Part III: Discipline.

Chapter 8: Getting Down to Earth and Practical: Disciplining Your Kids.

Chapter 9: Choosing Different Strategies for Different Ages.

Chapter 10: When the Going Gets Tough: Handling Conflict.

Part IV: Helping Your Child Cope with Common Problems.

Chapter 11: Coping with School.

Chapter 12: Helping Your Child Cope with Individual Problems.

Chapter 13: Helping Your Child Cope with Bigger Issues.

Part V: Being Different.

Chapter 14: Raising Children with Unique and Special Needs.

Chapter 15: Raising Twins, Triplets, and Multiple-Birth Children.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 16: Ten Things to Do Every Single Day as a Parent.

Chapter 17: Ten Techniques to Build a Happy Home.

Chapter 18: Ten Things to Do When It All Goes Pear-Shaped.

Chapter 19: Ten (or so) Top Resources for Parents.

Index.