Description
Highly readable, funny, and smart, Dad's Parenting Playbook: The S-M-I-L-E-S Approach to Raising Resilient Kids by William T. Terry, MD (Dr. T) is a parenting guide that sets forth an easy-to-follow playbook on the art of fatherhood. Dads will learn how to play an important role on a winning team that produces confident, resilient children. Dr. T's approach is structured around giving support, modeling for imitation, setting limits, and emphasizing the importance of education and spirituality. Divided into four quarters, the parenting game is on. With titles such as "Dads and Moms are Different: Jumping Out of a Six-foot Hole" and "Failure and a Positive Attitude: The Capacity to Adapt," readers learn how to interact with their children. Any man can be a father; it takes a man willing to go the distance to be a dad and this book will help him get there.
About the Author
A graduate of Stanford University, William T. Terry, MD (Dr. T) earned his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine. He received his training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Letterman Army Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. After directing the Army's drug and alcohol program in Europe, he taught in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the University Of Nevada School Of Medicine. As a practicing physician, he has served as medical director of several psychiatric hospitals and has worked with parents and their children for over 35 years. A widely respected lecturer on bipolar disorder in children and adolescents, Dr. T has traveled the country giving numerous presentations on the identification of psychiatric conditions in general medical practice. Currently, he lives in Idaho. This is his second book.
