Lighthouse Parenting

Overview

Leading adolescent health expert Dr. Ken Ginsburg offers a road map for raising children for greater academic success, higher levels of emotional well-being, increased resilience, fewer behavioral risks, and reduced emotional distress. His lighthouse parenting action plan applies a balanced parenting approach that lays the foundation for the kind of relationship in which parents will be welcomed as a guide in childhood, throughout adolescence, and beyond. Lighthouse Parenting develops emotionally healthy children and adolescents who go on to have deep, enduring relationships with their parents for their entire lifetime.

Author Biography

Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, FAAP, practices adolescent medicine at Children’ s Hospital of Philadelphia and is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is the founding director of the Center for Parent and Teen Communication. His books include Congrats—You’re Having a Teen! and Building Resilience in Children and Teens. He is the father of 2 young adults and lives in Philadelphia, PA.