The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children: Parenting from the Heart [Paperback]

The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic parenting book, now updated to reflect Steven Vannoy’s two decades of experience helping both families and businesses better care for their children and employees.

For more than twenty years,The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Childrenhas been helping parents to put the joy back into parenting. Steven Vannoy’s unique parenting style is designed to create a harmonious family atmosphere with self-esteem, compassion, balance, humor, communication, integrity, responsibility, conscious choice, and full expression of emotions.

And parents are not the only ones who have benefitted from Vannoy’s wisdom: in the years since the book was first published, Vannoy has used the principles in this book to help businesses worldwide create healthier and more fulfilling workplaces. With updated principles and a new foreword by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition will help both new and old readers ofThe 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Childrenbuild better relationships with their children and colleagues both in the office and at home.Ten Greatest Gifts I Give My Children

CHAPTER ONE

Tool One: Forward Focus

Sometimes I wonder about certain drivers I see hurtling down the highway. Their driving seems very erratic. Then I pull alongside and notice that while they appeared to be looking straight ahead, they were actually driving by looking in the rearview mirror. Some are checking their hair, applying makeup, shaving—whatever—and some are just staring in the mirror for no apparent reason.

A lot of families I know, including my own for many years, steer their lives the way these drivers do their cars—by staring in the rearview mirror!

We only have a certain amount of energy, time, and potential to use each day. Of tl#,