License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Security-Conscious Kids

　　如果《史密斯任務》有育兒版……來自前任CIA探員夫婦的超狂教養書！
 
　　一部實用且絕對必要的育兒指南，從自我防衛到處理衝突的方式，教導孩子最重要的生活技巧！
 
　　當事業有成的CIA分析師克莉絲汀娜，與CIA情報員萊恩相戀、成婚，他們與萊恩前段婚姻中的三個孩子，組成了一個大家庭。隨後，更加入了新成員──兩人所生的兩個孩子。
 
　　婚後，克莉絲汀娜觀察到，萊恩教導孩子的方式有些特別，她很快發現，萊恩在日常對孩子的教導中，運用了CIA的訓練與實際經驗。她感到驚奇，但……老實說，為什麼不呢？CIA訓練、培養員工應付任何狀況的能力，身為父母，她也希望自己的孩子們能有足夠的知識和技巧，能抵禦危險、克服困難。
 
　　克莉絲汀娜於是與萊恩一同運用這些知識，以「史密斯風格」教育他們的小孩。透過真誠坦率的文字、令爸媽們感同身受的育兒趣事，克莉絲汀娜和萊恩分享了他們是如何教導出自信、有安全意識、充滿韌性的孩子，並提供源自於CIA專業訓練的各種實用技巧，期望透過本書，提供爸媽們需要的工具，來教育出具備實用技能、全方位發展的孩子，讓他們擁有足夠的必要技能，能盡情探索人生的無限可能。

＂If Mr. and Mrs. Smith had kids and wrote a parenting book, this is what you’d get: a practical guide for how to utilize key spy tactics to teach kids important life skills--from self-defense to effective communication to conflict resolution.＂ --Working Mother

Christina was a single, successful CIA analyst with a burgeoning career in espionage when she met fellow spy, Ryan, a hotshot field operative who turned her world upside down. They fell in love, married, and soon they were raising three children from his first marriage, and later, two more of their own.

Christina knew right away that there was something special about the way Ryan was parenting his kids, although she had to admit their obsession with surviving end-of-world scenarios and their ability to do everything from archery to motorcycle riding initially gave her pause. More than that, Ryan’s kids were much more security savvy than most adults she knew. She soon realized he was using his CIA training and field experience in his day-to-day child-rearing. And why shouldn’t he? The CIA trains its employees to be equipped to deal with just about anything. Shouldn’t parents strive to do the same for their kids?

As Christina grew into her new role as a stepmom and later gave birth to their two children, she got on board with Ryan’s unique parenting style--and even helped shape it using her own experiences at the CIA. Told through honest and relatable parenting anecdotes, Christina shares their distinctive approach to raising confident, security-conscious, resilient children, giving practical takeaways rooted in CIA tradecraft along the way. License to Parent aims to provide parents with the tools necessary to raise savvier, well-rounded kids who have the skills necessary to navigate through life.

Christina and Ryan Hillsberg are former spies with 20+ years’ experience working at the Central Intelligence Agency and a combined 24 years of parenting. They live near Seattle, Washington, with their five children and two Rhodesian Ridgebacks.