DADS UNLIMITED LAUNCHES FIRST PARENTING PRODUCT WITH FAMILYSENSE PRESS

DADS Unlimited has launched it's first easy-to-use parenting guide, "The Freedom of Limits." The booklet is the first in a six-part series designed to help parents, grandparents and other care givers address common areas of potential conflict with their children.

Washington, DC December 9 2003--DADS Unlimited, an organization dedicated to providing a range of practical services and resources that support parenting, announced today that FamilySense Press has published the first title in its Understanding and Dealing with Parenting Clashpoints booklet series. The Freedom of Limits, available at www.daddying.com, is the first in a six-part series written for parents, grandparents, community organizations, and others who interact with children of all ages.

During the holidays, when families spend more time together and emotions and behaviors are often more intense, limits are particularly important, said Allan Shedlin, Jr., president and CEO of DADS Unlimited. The Freedom of Limits emphasizes that the goal of establishing boundaries is not to control children, but to help them learn to control themselves. At the same time, the booklet helps parents and other caregivers see limit setting as a way to minimize conflict and demonstrate concern, rather than as a source of conflict.

The Parenting Clashpoints series addresses issues identified by kids and confirmed by parents and experts as predictable clashpoints during the dynamic process of lifelong parenting. Although clashpoints may be uncomfortable, they provide opportunities to reinforce values and to model ways for resolving conflict. The booklets can be used as a tool to generate discussion and provide practical guidance as families develop strategies and approaches to the everyday stresses and challenges that are intrinsic to family dynamics.

Allan Shedlin has the most profound understanding of children of any person that I have ever met. Because he hears what children are saying, he is an invaluable mentor for parents and others who spend time with young people, said Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First and the forthcoming Viking book, A Womans Guide to Second Adulthood. The booklet series also complements nicely the parenting consulting and school-home liaison work provided by DADS Unlimited.

At the end of each booklet, a Parenting Checkpointsummary enables adults to review and assess their progress. The Checkpoints are designed to stimulate frank and valuable dialogue between adults and young people to help them consider alternative strategies for dealing with predictable challenges that arise during a variety of family interactions. Future titles in the Parenting Clashpoints series will address emotions and feelings, roles and relationships, routines and traditions, trust and respect, and goals and expectations.

DADS Unlimited provides families access to a variety of practical, research-based Lifelong Parenting services, resources, and products. DADS Unlimiteds products and services have special appeal to men, but are useful to women and men alike. DADS Unlimiteds first available services were parenting consulting and school-home liaison services, which focus on helping parents across the lifespan address common, everyday parenting challenges. Parenting consulting provides an opportunity to understand and develop practical strategies to address the day-to-day issues of parenting before they become crises. In addition, Shedlin offers pro bono services to nonprofit organizations.

About FamilySense Press
FamilySense Press is dedicated to publishing materials that provide practical, common sense suggestions for everyday challenges intrinsic to dynamic family interactions. A percentage of profits from the sale of its publications benefit the DADS Unlimited Foundation, dedicated to supporting grassroots organizations that help parents become the parents they want to be. The Foundation is a subsidiary of DADS UnlimitedTM LLC.

About DADS Unlimited and Allan Shedlin, Jr.
DADS UnlimitedTM LLC is dedicated to demystifying parenting and developing a comprehensive range of practical services and resources that support parents. Its focus is on enabling fathers to become the lifelong dads they want to be, and that kids want and need them to be. Based in suburban Maryland, DADS Unlimited teaches dads the art and craft of daddying a fathers (or surrogate fathers) active, lifelong commitment to his childs physical, emotional, social, intellectual/creative, and moral/spiritual well being. DADS Unlimiteds products and parenting consulting services are useful to women as well, and also benefit community-based organizations, corporations, government agencies, and other third-party partners nationwide who would like to make them available to their members, employees or constituents. For more information, please visit www.daddying.com.

Allan Shedlins career as an educator and child and family consultant spans four decades. He has been a teacher, principal, Executive Director of the National Elementary School Center, and a national and state policy advisor on issues affecting children, families and schools. Currently he is the President/CEO of DADS Unlimited LLC, an organization dedicated to demystifying parenting and developing a comprehensive range of services and resources that support parenting. Building on his extensive work with individual families since 1963, he has established a short-term parenting consulting practice (available nationwide via telephone). Through his national consulting, frequent broadcast interviews, speaking engagements, and published commentary, he has steadily established a broad national platform as an authority on parenting, education, and child-focused public policy. He is the dad of three and granddad of four.


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