The ABC's of Effective Parenting: Supervising Character Formation in Children - Paperback

by Gresham R. Holton (Author)

The ABC's of Effective Parenting, "Supervising Character Formation in Children" is about how to supervise the development of character in children. It is a book for training parenting supervisors; both natural parents and professional child care supervisors. The book presents a structured approach developed as the "Acceptable Behaviors Choices" system in a professional residential child care agency. The purpose of the ABC system is to train parenting supervisors in how to train children to survive in the world in which they live. In addition, the process trains children to become independent adults by learning to make good decision choices. The finished product will be a child becoming an adult equipped with a built-in framework of effective decisions based on proven virtues and values. This book does not propose the content of character, but rather on how character develops.

Author Biography

GRESHAM ROYAL HOLTON has worked with Raintree Village, a children and family services agency in Dasher, Georgia, since 1980. Prior to that he was a minister for churches of Christ in several states including Oklahoma, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas and Georgia . Holton is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He completed his Masters in Family Sociology at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1983 and has been licensed to practice Marital and Family Therapist since then. Holton and his wife, Sharlene, are the parents of five grown children. Holton is the author of several books including, Christians, Single Again!