THE PUREST PLEASURE
Raising Children That Other People Like To be Around
By Richard E. Greenberg

Dr. Spock meets Dave Barry ! 

A father of four offers highly practical, anecdotal advice, tested and proven in his own family, on how to raise children so that they respect others while understanding their own roles and responsibilities in and out of the home.

The Purest Pleasure is a non-clinical guide offering parents techniques they need to create loving and comfortable relationships with their children--from infancy to college age.  Richard Greenberg has translated the lessons of his own experience into a series of common sense conclusions, each of which simplifies an important portion of the parenting process. This easy-to-read and humorously written manual gives parents the confidence they need to minimize their children's anxiety and maximize comfort in their homes.

A keen observer, and a parent for over half of his life, Richard Greenberg has changed more than 6,000 diapers, packed over 200 school lunches, discussed in excess of 100 report cards, attended at least 300 parent conferences, hosted 60 birthday parties, and given at least 9,000 goodnight kisses. An experienced entertainment industry veteran and college educator, Mr. Greenberg knows how to keep it simple, while getting his message across.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, over 3.9 million children were born in the 
United States in 1996. Half of the nation's 70 million families have children, of which more
than 63 million are under the age of eighteen (World Almanac, 1998).... Clearly, the subject of child rearing is of tremendous interest to everyone - parents, grandparents, siblings, caregivers and educators. The good news is that the market just keeps growing.

Parenting books abound in the marketplace, but most are written by 'experts' using third-party case studies to illustrate their points. Many books in the genre deal with the day-to-day care of young children but rarely address the broader issues of parental responsibility, social expectation, and concern about relationships outside the family. The few that focus on a father's point of view usually explain the new father's role in pregnancy and childbirth.

The Purest Pleasure will:

• Explain that raising children is a process that comfortably includes success and failure.
• Encourage parenting self-respect - giving readers the strength to say NO to their children
• Prepare parents to accept responsibility for their children's behavior.
• Encourage parents to teach gratitude and make children responsible citizens.
• Provide examples of concrete solutions to common parenting problems.
• Encourage parents to develop respectful and loving relationships with their children. 
• Provide mothers with a window into the mind and logic of a father.
• Offer relief and comfort to unsure parents.

"Rules are the arms with which your children can embrace themselves."
- R. Greenberg

DOWNLOAD the COMPLETE Book Proposal