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Summary: The BEST book on Shyness
Review: I did not understand the previous review of Dr. Swallow's book. It did not appear to seek to present "medical evidence of shyness," but rather attempted to present practical suggestions to parents regarding the behavior of their shy children. I found this book to be very helpful....Thanx Dr. Swallow....changed my child's life.
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Summary: The BEST book on Shyness
Review: I did not understand the previous review of Dr. Swallow's book. It did not appear to seek to present "medical evidence of shyness," but rather attempted to present practical suggestions to parents regarding the behavior of their shy children. I found this book to be very helpful....Thanx Dr. Swallow....changed my child's life.
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Summary: Well explained - I really like it
Review: I enjoy reading Dr. Swallow book, it contains great information, and the contents are explained well. Dr. Swallow should write more books, I come here today to find more books written by Dr. Swallow, but I found just this one. Well, I then want to recommend it.
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Summary: Not Enough Answers
Review: I felt this book had some decent advice, but it was not detailed enough when it came to sharing specific examples. I was looking for something that would give me and my three-year-old son some ideas on how to handle leaving him at preschool when he'd cling on to me as if I were going to throw him into a lion's cage. Do you peel him off and leave? Do you sit on the sidelines with him still hanging on? How long should you plan on staying in the classroom? A week? A month? However long the child wants/needs you there? And when do you make the determination that he is not ready/ready for school?
I had SO MANY questions and was dismayed to discover this book, although shedding a lot of light on the shy child, gave too few answers on what to do in common situations.
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Summary: Not Enough Answers
Review: I spent a weekend reading and studying this book to help my 3-year-old daughter. I was able to use some of the techniques immediately, and saw immediate results. It was helpful to me, a somewhat shy person, and to my husband, a non-shy person. It really helps us to understand how she's feeling. It also helps us give her the tools to overcome some of her shyness. It's great, too, because it has suggestions for different age levels. It was quite rewarding as a parent to be able to help my daughter with her anxiety in certain situations. I would, and have, highly recommend this to ANYONE with a shy child. It is wonderful!
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I spent a weekend reading and studying this book to help my 3-year-old daughter. I was able to use some of the techniques immediately, and saw immediate results. It was helpful to me, a somewhat shy person, and to my husband, a non-shy person. It really helps us to understand how she's feeling. It also helps us give her the tools to overcome some of her shyness. It's great, too, because it has suggestions for different age levels. It was quite rewarding as a parent to be able to help my daughter with her anxiety in certain situations. I would, and have, highly recommend this to ANYONE with a shy child. It is wonderful!
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I used this book when I was desparate to find a way to treat my child who has selective mutism. The book was extremely helpful and provided easy to implement suggestions. My son is doing very well because of this book. This is particularly important because I had such a hard time finding a therapist for him and ended up doing this myself. Thank goodness for this book with its logical approach to a frequently overwhelming problem.
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Summary: Excellent resource
Review: I used this book when I was desparate to find a way to treat my child who has selective mutism. The book was extremely helpful and provided easy to implement suggestions. My son is doing very well because of this book. This is particularly important because I had such a hard time finding a therapist for him and ended up doing this myself. Thank goodness for this book with its logical approach to a frequently overwhelming problem.
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Summary: Finally, An Up-to-Date Book on Shyness in Children
Review: In The Shy Child, Dr. Ward Swallow finally set my mind at ease about why my child is so shy and how much I can do about it. He validated my own instinct to accept shyness as a way of being that has its place in the world--and to resist forcing my child to completely change the personality she was born with. With acceptance as a jumping off point, he helped me get inside the mind of my shy child and to understand her reticence at last. At the same time, Dr. Swallow acknowledges that it is crucial for my CHILD to understand shyness, as well. Shy children who don't get in touch with their inner "self-talk" can become depressed when they feel limited in what they want to do in life. The book's explicit, age-appropriate approaches to handling situations that cause anxiety in a shy child gave me confidence to talk directly to my child about shyness. I now think I can help her identify things she would like to do but thinks she can't, and to summon the courage to find success in situations that previously left her in tears. I had previously read Zimbardo's book on shyness in children, and I was dismayed to find that it offers outdated psychological explanations for different personalities, making shyness seem like a disorder, rather than a personality type. I found Dr. Swallow's approach much more reasonable and I think it offers much more potential for liberating a shy child from self-reproach.
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Summary: A parents guide to assisting shy children.
Review: This book is designed to assist parents in utilizing family resources to maximize the development of their shy children.
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