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Summary: Thank you Dr. Severe
Review: I have just purchased How To Behave So Your Children Will, Too! by Sal Severe, Ph.D. This book has been very useful to me as a school administrator who often has to help parents with childraising skills.
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Summary: An excellant down to earth book on parenting.
Review: This book is an excellant tool for parents and professionals. Its' down to earth format makes it easy to understand. The parenting skills and advice Dr. Sever delivers in this book should encourage parents to increase their skills thereby increasing the positive behavior of their children. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: The BEST Parenting Book!
Review: "BEST" PARENT BOOK OUT THERE. I am giving it as xmas presents to all parents I know.
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Summary: I recommend this book!
Review: I run a daycare & I recommend this book to every parent I encounter as well as buying it for gifts :-)!
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Summary: My university recommends it
Review: I requested a review copy for a Parent/Child course at University of Iowa - Now a recommended text in the course.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Excellent and insightful. Thanks Dr. Severe, We needed it
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Summary: EVERY parent should have...
Review: This book should accompany EVERY newborn leaving the hospital
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Summary: I liked this book!
Review: Here's an easy to read book, free of jargon, filled with a multitude of examples described in simple language to show effective discipline techniques. The techniques are nothing new to experienced teachers i.e. the use of modelling, redirecting misbehaviour,use of encouragement, incentives, contracts, consequences, how to be proactive and use of timeouts. Experienced teachers would be well advised to recommend this book to parents and new teachers looking for some "tricks of the trade." Two chapters well worth reading for all teachers and parents are Divorce and Behaviour and Peer Pressure. Dr. Severe debunks the belief that children are naturally flexible and resilient when it comes to their parents' divorce. Any educator will verify his thoughts and conclusions with their own stories of students in the classroom being devasted by divorce. Dr. Sever also gives useful tips to parents and teachers on how to lessen these effects. What I found dissapointing with How To Behave So Your Children Will, Too! is the fact that although Dr. Severe has spent over 25 years working with behaviour disordered children, he very rarely talks about the adolescent and teenage child whose misbehaviour has been ingrained over the years. I was hoping as I read the book that his background in treating adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems, that there would be examples and techniques on how to deal with severly disturbed children. Alas, it was not so. Perhaps a topic for his next book.
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Summary: Zero *s: short-sighted; maybe good for you, bad for child.
Review: Catchy title, but I will not do this to my children. Mr. Severe opens the book with an anecdote about punishing a son who reported having an accident. This book completely describes how to use pop behaviorism's reward-and-punish approach. This approach will work in the short term, but will have the opposite of the desired effects in the long term. If one only teaches one's child to behave in order to get a reward or to avoid punishment, that child has no reason to behave in the absence of either (eg, when you're not around). Using this "system" can either deplete a child's interest in much of life, teach them to decide what to do based on a calculation of risks, teach them to hide their mistakes, or at least, ruin your potential relationship with them by turning you into The Enforcer. Instead I would suggest buying _Kids are Worth It!_ by Barbara Colorosso, or for a well-researched argument on why Colorosso's approach is better than Severe's, see _Punished by Rewards_ by Alfie Kohn.
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Summary: Wish I'd Had This Book Before My Daughter Left the Nest!
Review: What a wonderful collection of lessons that teach parents to "grow up" so they can teach by example rather than "wing it!" Where was this book when I needed it? I once explained my behavior as a father to my daughter by saying, "I did the best I could. I didn't go to Daddy School." If you have children you gotta read this book. This book IS Mommy and Daddy School!!
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