BOOK RELEASE | By The Chapter & Verse Team

Barbara Coloroso’s international bestseller — kids are worth it! raising resilient, responsible, compassionate kids — is set for release this month by Penguin Canada. The book was originally published in 1995 with worldwide sales of more than one million copies.

Coloroso delivers a powerful message that good parenting begins with treating kids with dignity and respect. It advocates giving children a sense of power in their own lives and offering them opportunities to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions, and the ability to learn from their own successes and mistakes.

This edition features a new introduction from Coloroso. The book rejects the "quick fix" solutions of punishment and reward. Coloroso uses everyday family situations — from sibling rivalry to teenage rebellion — to demonstrate sound strategies for giving children the inner discipline and self-confidence that will help them to become responsible, resourceful and compassionate adults. kids are worth it!  also highlights the good news of the strong-willed child, pitfalls of too much praise and the key steps to buffering your child from sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, and other life crises.

Barbara Coloroso is an internationally recognized speaker and author on parenting, teaching, school discipline, grieving, nonviolent conflict resolution, restorative justice and bullying. A parent of three grown children and a grandparent of a toddler and infant, for the past 40 years Barbara has been an educational consultant for parent groups, school districts, and other educational associations around the world. A former Franciscan nun, she now lives with her family in Littleton, Colorado.

kids are worth it! raising resilient, responsible, compassionate kids by Barbara Coloroso

978-0143175438 / 352 pages / $22 | Published: April 1, 2010 | Penguin Canada