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Summary: Thank you Nancy for the best book on parenting ever!
Review: A copy of Nancy Samalin's Loving Your Child is Not Enough should be handed to every new parent. In a perfect world, it would be required reading for all parents. Nancy shows us the way to stress free parenting where everyone's self esteem remains intact and results abound. I have learned to rethink my responses in situations that would previously have been governed by anger or frustation. Now I can react with humor and common sense. No more lectures or belittling. I use Nancy's methods in my classroom where I am surrounded by happy children who love school. I offer Nancy's books to parents who come to me with questions about parenting. I strongly recommend this book to everyone who is a parent searching for advice on how to raise children with love, compassion and wisdom. Thank you Nancy for the best book on parenting ever!
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Summary: This is a MUST read!
Review: A friend had been recommending this book to me for a couple years. I finally read it and got so much out of it and bought Nancy's other books right away. Nancy makes you realize that you are not alone with the daily struggles of parenting. She gives you great suggestions on how to handle the difficult situations I encounter with my two boys everyday. She provided me with healthy options to replace the unhealthy ones that naturally came out of my mouth. I have recommended it to all my friends. I will not part with it, it is definitely a keeper.
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Summary: Super-helpful Book
Review: After reading this book, I immediately went out and bought the others and I've certainly not been disappointed. The book is an easy read and it has been very useful to me, my wife and our two daughters. Samalin gives excellent suggestions on how to handle the difficult, everyday conflicts that I encountered with my children on an all too regular basis. She gave me effective options to replace the damaging ones that used to pop out of my mouth with what seemed like a will of their own. This book should be required reading for every new parent. I found it indispensable and plan to recommend it to my friends and acquaintances.
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Summary: Super-helpful Book
Review: After reading this book, I immediately went out and bought the others and I've certainly not been disappointed. The book is an easy read and it has been very useful to me, my wife and our two daughters. Samalin gives excellent suggestions on how to handle the difficult, everyday conflicts that I encountered with my children on an all too regular basis. She gave me effective options to replace the damaging ones that used to pop out of my mouth with what seemed like a will of their own. This book should be required reading for every new parent. I found it indispensable and plan to recommend it to my friends and acquaintances.
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Summary: I Constantly Recomend This Book To My Clients
Review: As a practicing Marriage and Family Psychotherapist and former elementary school principal, I must have read hundreds of books on how to discipline children effectively. However, the problem with many of them is that the emphasis is generally on how to get children to behave cooperatively, rather than on how to raise emotionally healthy, happy, responsible children who know how think for themselves. Nancy's book is the best match I've seen for the methods that therapists believe are most effective in developing high self-esteem in kids. The author helps parents and teachers understand that, by treating children with dignity and respect and listening to their feelings,our kids will WANT to do the 'RIGHT THING'. Loving Your Child Is Not Enough is written in clear, easy-to-read chapters filled with examples we all can relate to. I often recommend that busy moms and dads buy the cassette version and listen and talk about it, and I frequently use Nancy's explanations in describing good parenting to my clients - AND to their children! I also suggest that readers will want to read other books written by Sammalin.
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Summary: loving your child is not enough
Review: as a practicing pediatrician for 37 years, i found this book very helpful , especially with advice on avoiding daily battles and on why punishment doesn't work. i have been recommending it to parents on a regular basis.
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Summary: Very Unrealistic
Review: I bought this book because other customer reviews raved about how wonderful it was. Well, I was very disappointed. It was so awful, I couldn't even read the book all the way through. The book is almost entirely made up of sample conversations that show you how you should be talking with your children. Unfortunately, the children in these conversations are unlike any child I know. In the book, the three-year-olds talk more like ten-year-olds. It is very unrealistic. I would give it zero stars if I could. I sent the book back.
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Summary: Great! Readable, practical, helpful.
Review: I highly recommend this book. The title may be a bit deceptive, since it's really about avoiding punishment and letting normal consequences and kids' own consciences steer them the right way. Many practical examples are given, that translate easily into daily use. Very readable, it helps both parents who have trouble setting limits, and also in a very sensitive and palatable way helps those who have fallen into an punitive and harsh pattern with their kids. Very helpful.
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Summary: Listen to this audio every few months for added benefits!
Review: I purchased the audio version of this book, and found it more rewarding. The first time I played it, I picked up on the concept of the new discipline theory. The audio provided many examples, and basically seems to be a simple theory. I've tried using the positive discipline plan with my two daughters, and surprisingly it worked very well in many situations. Very seldom did I have to resort to my old disciplinary behaviors. My children prefer the new methods, and have become more verbal about their own punishments, and what they believe is fair and unfair. Though we don't see eye to eye on these, we have the communication, and they do seem to be behaving a lot better and we are able to spend more time enjoying each other, instead of arguing or separated into different rooms. When I replayed this tape after several months later, I was encouraged to continue this plan, and also to fine tune it with a few additional recommendations that were discussed. I highly recommend this to all parents who wish to develop a stronger relationship with their children, and who wish to gain a little more respect from them as well.
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Summary: Listen to this audio every few months for added benefits!
Review: I purchased the audio version of this book, and found it more rewarding. The first time I played it, I picked up on the concept of the new discipline theory. The audio provided many examples, and basically seems to be a simple theory. I've tried using the positive discipline plan with my two daughters, and surprisingly it worked very well in many situations. Very seldom did I have to resort to my old disciplinary behaviors. My children prefer the new methods, and have become more verbal about their own punishments, and what they believe is fair and unfair. Though we don't see eye to eye on these, we have the communication, and they do seem to be behaving a lot better and we are able to spend more time enjoying each other, instead of arguing or separated into different rooms. When I replayed this tape after several months later, I was encouraged to continue this plan, and also to fine tune it with a few additional recommendations that were discussed. I highly recommend this to all parents who wish to develop a stronger relationship with their children, and who wish to gain a little more respect from them as well.
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