There’s a fresh set of 3Rs for our kids-respect, responsibility, and resilience-to better prepare them forever in real life. Once created, these skills allow kids take charge, and allow parents step back again, to the benefit of all. Casting hover moms and helicopter parents apart, Vicki Hoefle promotes a different, counter-intuitive, yet a lot more effective, approach to parenting: for parents to sit on their hands, stick to the sidelines-even if duct tape is required! Witty and straight-shooting, Duct Tape Parenting entertains since it informs parents how exactly to do less in order to raise well informed, capable children. Includes a foreword by Alex Kajitani, the 2009 2009 California Teacher of the Year and Finalist Country wide Teacher of the Year.