99 Ways to Drive Your Child Sane

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Summary: Abusive Parenting Methods
Review: As a psychologist, parent and foster parent I found this book to be a wonderful resource. This book consists of 99 specific activities / responses for a wide variety of situations. This is a "must have" for parents dealing with children with any emotional or behavioral problems. It is also a great book for anyone wishing to improve their parenting skills. With ideas ranging from "SLOW PRACTICE" for those kids who express their passive aggressive tendencies by doing things purposely slowly to "MUMBLE AWAY" for those kids who you have to ask to repeat themselves - repeatedly. This book should be named "99 Ways To Drive Your Child Sane" (Without Going Crazy). I strongly recommend it to parents of all children.

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Summary: Great Parenting Guide
Review: As a psychologist, parent and foster parent I found this book to be a wonderful resource. This book consists of 99 specific activities / responses for a wide variety of situations. This is a "must have" for parents dealing with children with any emotional or behavioral problems. It is also a great book for anyone wishing to improve their parenting skills. With ideas ranging from "SLOW PRACTICE" for those kids who express their passive aggressive tendencies by doing things purposely slowly to "MUMBLE AWAY" for those kids who you have to ask to repeat themselves - repeatedly. This book should be named "99 Ways To Drive Your Child Sane" (Without Going Crazy). I strongly recommend it to parents of all children.

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Summary: Great Parenting Guide
Review: As a psychologist, parent and foster parent I found this book to be a wonderful resource. This book consists of 99 specific activities / responses for a wide variety of situations. This is a "must have" for parents dealing with children with any emotional or behavioral problems. It is also a great book for anyone wishing to improve their parenting skills. With ideas ranging from "SLOW PRACTICE" for those kids who express their passive aggressive tendencies by doing things purposely slowly to "MUMBLE AWAY" for those kids who you have to ask to repeat themselves - repeatedly. This book should be named "99 Ways To Drive Your Child Sane" (Without Going Crazy). I strongly recommend it to parents of all children.

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Summary: Abusive Parenting Methods
Review: I am shocked that any health professional would recommend this ... collection of parenting activities (organized like a recipe book). Apparently St.Clair's basic idea is that parents can build trust with their children by humiliating them and by acting irrationally and unpredictably. St. Clair promotes the notion that home life is a game that parents must win and children must lose. This is just more abusive nonsense from the "Holding Therapy" cult.

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Summary: Not for parents of "regular" kids"
Review: I tell all parents and all one-on-one workers with challenging children to get a copy of this book. While these approaches were written for parents of children with RAD (reactive attachment disorder), many of them are applicable to children diagnosed with ODD (oppositional defiant disorder), Bipolar, or other emotional and behavioral issues. Parents who have "regular" children are unfamiliar with how different it is to parent a challenging child. These pointers help keep kids thinking and wondering...just what's needed to help them heal.

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Summary: Probation, Community service, Death
Review: In 2001, the book's author was sentenced to probation and community service as her penalty in the "rebirthing therapy" death of Candace Newmaker. Enough said to be very wary of the contents of this book and the mind that wrote it.