"Parenting today is no easy task but Tools for Effective Parenting can help. From years of raising his own children and caring for thousands of others Donahue has discovered some basic tools to make parenting easier and more effective. The good news is that most parents already have these tools on hand but do not think of them as parenting helpers. Can peer pressure be a parenting tool? Donahue says it can. So can having a pet, going to church, and easiest of all, listening to your kids. He discusses these and nine other tools. He uses poignant, real life stories told to him by ordinary kids to demonstrate just how these simple tools will be the answer to a parent's prayers."--