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 Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child : Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries :: 0761521364
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Now You Can Effectively Parent Your Strong-Willed Child
Does your child constantly misbehave and ignore or refuse your requests for proper behavior? Is your relationship with your child based on conflict instead of mutual respect and cooperation? With the help of this groundbreaking book, you can create a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with your child.
Inside are proven techniques and procedures that provide a refreshing alternative to the ineffective extremes of punishment and permissiveness. Parents and teachers alike will discover how to effectively motivate the strong-willed child and achieve proper conduct. You will learn how to:
·Understand and empathize without giving in
·Hold your ground without threatening
·Remove daily power struggles between you and your child
·Give clear, firm messages that your child understands and respects
·And much more!
"Eminently useful and readable! This book should be a part of every parent's and school's reference library."—Judy E. Hunt-Brown, principal, Elk Grove Unified School District
"A grand book that teaches everybody in the family new skills and encourages more peaceful, socially acceptable lives at home, school, in the office, or in any social group."—Barbara O'Donnell, principal, St. Francis Elementary School
"A highly recommended eye-opener; beautifully documented."—Stewart E. Teal, M.D., clinical professor of child psychiatry, University of California, DavisEditorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
I enjoyed reading this book. I love when I learn something from parenting books. Another great recommendation is Good Parents Bad Parenting by Lisa Dunning. These two books are worth the money!
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Author: Guest
I have read four or five books about the subject and I must say that this one is the best for me in terms of feeling comfortable with his advice and obtaining immediate results.
One of the characteristics that makes his approach different to many others is that while other books talk about changing the attitude of our kids before we can change their behavior, Robert MacKenzie teaches we should concentrate on obtaining the right behavior while ignoring their attitude. What is the logic behind it and why is it more effective? Because the bad attitudes our kids show are usually attempts to hook us into a power struggle. Once they realize we are not taking the bait any more, they stop trying; their attitude changes without us having to deal with it. It really works!
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Author: Guest
If you have a difficult child who you've tried everything with and nothing works. They just won't listen to you no matter what. GET THIS. IT WORKS. My husband and I have tried everything for discipline with our daughter. She's only four and I'm at my wit's end already! One day I found I had a link to this book on Amazon and decided to check it out. Thank God I did. It actually worked. It is easy reading, orderly, and easy to implement. All it requires is an open mind to how your child's temperment is (and it won't change) and how you are parenting right now. If it's not working for you together this book provides a way to fix it. I used to be a bag of emotions. I'm a stay-at-home home schooling Mom and I was starting to really regret my decision to do this. I would coax, yell, bargain, bribe, threaten, ignore, you name it I tried it. She seemed to be able to out smart my every move. Then I read this and discovered I was sending mixed messages to her. I thought my words were clear, but my actions weren't sending the same message. Now, I don't yell, coax, or anything. I tell her what I want her to do and set a limit. It's her choice to make the right or wrong decision, and MY job to enforce the outcome. Life is so much better for all of us. Really, if you are like I am....get this book, it will help.
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Author: Guest
This is the BEST parenting book that I have come across, and I have read many. We raised our son AP (attachment parenting) and I tried to positively parent at all times. I always foolishly assumed that if I gave my child my all, that they would reflect that and we would always have peaceful, equitable exchanges. Then my child turned 3 and whatever was I thinking!?
After I read this book, I emotionally and mentally looked at my interactions with my child differently. I realized that I should never become personally offended/upset when he behaves the way he does. Inserting my emotions only takes away from my ability to handle the situation.
Most books on the market tend to swing to one extreme or the other. I read many permissive books that basically told me I should conform and adapt everything to my child's spirited personality...that it was totally my responsibility to change and not the child's. Other books literally preach animal like control and obedience techniques that I think are overly authoritarian and too strict for any child.
I am so happy to have found this book! After a few weeks of consistently implementing what the author suggests...our household is SO MUCH HAPPIER!! What is suggested in this book has totally worked for our family!
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Author: Guest
We bought this book after our second child was born. Up until then, we had almost always been able to negotiate and work things out with our bright, VERY persistent three-year-old. But following the arrival of a new sibling, his behavior grew more and more obnoxious, and empathizing with his difficult feelings (which had always worked before) only seemed to make him more angry. Finally, we decided that he needed to learn to cope with his feelings without making everyone else miserable. In some ways, I feel that this book has been really helpful for us in coping with our own, very real limits as parents... i.e., we can't always "help" our kids with their feelings to get them to improve their behavior (especially on no sleep, with a new baby...) Sometimes, they have to "suck it up"! I gave this book 4 stars instead of five ONLY because I generally think it is better to see things from your child's point of view before doling out consequences, but if you find yourself yelling and threatening (as we did!), or giving in when you know better, this book gets you off that ride really fast. Then you can take a deep breath and start listening to your kids again.
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