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Summary: Good Book!
Review: This book is filled with tons of ideas on how to better discipline our children. Although I do not agree with everything contained in this book, I highly recommend it anyways because it contains really useful ideas about raising children. Zev Saftlas, Author of Motivation That Works: How to Get Motivated and Stay Motivated
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Summary: Great Resource for Parents!
Review: This book offers quick, easy, and realistic solutions to everyday issues. Disciplining children can be frustrating and challenging. Here is a book that offers "tricks of the trade" you can pull out of your hat. And best of all, you will feel good about the discipline options you choose if you follow these ideas. And here's a thought...give this at the next baby shower you attend!
Rating:
Summary: Great Resource for Parents!
Review: This book offers quick, easy, and realistic solutions to everyday issues. Disciplining children can be frustrating and challenging. Here is a book that offers "tricks of the trade" you can pull out of your hat. And best of all, you will feel good about the discipline options you choose if you follow these ideas. And here's a thought...give this at the next baby shower you attend!
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Summary: Great ideas in a handy resource.
Review: This is the kind of book that you keep handy and use often. It gives great ideas for all your daily discipline and behavior problems.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Yes, this is not a parenting style or system for everyone. As with all parenting books, you have to pick and choose, taking what you like and leaving the rest. I have read other "discipline" books, most of which are very different from this one. I have learned valuable things from everything I have read; however, this book is one of the few that really resonated with me.
I had noticed that many parents (present company included) didn't enjoy disciplining their kids. Sometimes they became locked in power struggles with their kids. Based on my observations, I was looking for a book that endorsed a less punitive and more egalitarian approach to the disciplining and training of children. This book approaches disciplining as character-building. In other words, the goal of discipline is to "build up" a child, instead of pushing or even shaming a child into behaving a certain way.
There are many important messages in this book, several of which are: balance firmness with kindness; watch what messages your actions and words are sending to your kids; don't expect too much or too little from your child, developmentally; and disciplinary consequences should be related, respectful, and reasonable.
Part One gives a good overview of the authors' approach, as well as a concise explanation of very pertinent topics such as some of the roots of poor self-esteem and acting out in anger. Sometimes there was a "cliff notes" feel to this section, but perhaps that was intentional because Part Two was meant to be the bulk of the book? I did think that this section was based on solid psychology, albeit particular branch(es) of psychology. If you look at parenting as a two-way transformative process, you can learn something about yourself as well through this section.
Part Two is the "A to Z" part of the book. There are quite a few helpful tips on a wide range of topics. In terms of methods, the authors emphasize verbal reasoning and consensus-building. They do offer some suggestions about more physical forms of discipline. They do not recommend spanking.
One note to the prospective buyer: this book is geared toward the older toddler and up (most of the time, the suggestions begin at 2 years of age). I do see that there are companion books for 0-3 years and teenage years, so if your kids fall into those categories, you might want to look at the other books as well.
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