Take Back Your Family: A Challenge to America's Parents » (Bargain)

Rev Run is a founding member of the chart-topping hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. (over 30 million albums sold).

His wife, Justine Simmons, costars on their blockbuster reality show, Run's House.

Chris Morrow is the coauthor of Do You! with Russell Simmons, the creator of Def Jam Records, and the older brother of Rev Run.

The stars of MTV's top-rated Run's House—dubbed “the new Cosby family”—offer a vital rescue manual for modern parenting.

An icon of hip-hop, a father of six, and an ordained minister, Rev Run has developed a parenting style that is in a class by itself. With his wife, Justine, he launched the blockbuster reality series Run's House on MTV, now filming its fifth season. The show has proven wildly popular in large part due to the way the Simmons family responds to very twenty-first-century issues. Emphasizing firm boundaries, noble values, discipline, and faith in an age marked by shallow materialism and fragmented families, Rev Run now shares the proven principles that have given his children a firm foundation, including:

? Run your family as the COEs: Chief Officers of Everything.
? Understand that you can never correct what you don't confront.
? Lead by example, not by preaching: Hypocrisy and parenting are a destructive combination.
? Today's fast-paced world can often make children feel small; your job is to help them feel large.
? Older children need more rules and parental involvement, not less.

Reaching an average weekly audience of 4.1 million viewers, Run's House speaks to America's fascination with high-profile parents. Take Back Your Family brings home the behind-the-scenes wisdom of hip-hop's first family to everyone seeking solid guidance for raising a new generation.

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Making Your Marriage Work First 21

Chapter 2 Putting Family First 58

Chapter 3 Clean Out Your Clutter, Not Your Children 88

Chapter 4 Examples Move the World More Than Doctrine 110

Chapter 5 Run Your Family Like a Business 147

Chapter 6 Make Your Children Feel Large 176

Chapter 7 Surviving the Hard Times 209

Chapter 8 Blending Is Beautiful 237

Chapter 9 Do Your Best and Then Forget the Rest 260

Acknowledgments 273