Eating, Sleeping, and Getting Up : How to Stop the Daily Battles with Your Child

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Summary: This Book Saved My Daughter's Life!
Review: As an Elementary School Principal, I am always on the lookout for books which will make a parent's life easier. This time I found one that not only helped the parents at my school, it saved my daughter's life. Whether a parent-child relationship needs a major overhaul or just needs a bit of fine-tuning, this book makes a real difference. We are using it continuously as a resource for both parents and teachers at my school.

But it is my personal experience with this book that sold me on its value. First, it helped me to recognize the problems that I was having with my strong-willed 4 year old. Next, it showed me how to recognize the behaviors that I was choosing that contribute to those problems. Once I swallowed my pride, I realized that things could be better. The best part was finding that the solutions that Dr. Crowder suggested were easily accomplished and really did work! I was amazed at how quickly I saw a change in our relationship. No more sass, no more subtle defiance. I am so used to books that take months to make a difference. This book made sense and made it easy to have a realtionship with my daughter that is now even more delightlful than before.

On a final note, I bless the day I read this book and decided to improve my relationship with my daughter. It literally may have saved her life. Shortly after completing the book, my daughter was hospitalized with a life threatening illness. Her compliance with the medical staff and my ability to perform follow-up care for her at home was dependent upon her willingness to do things repeatedly (22 times a day!) that were often either painful or "yucky!". With Dr. Crowder's help, my daughter was called a model patient by the mediacl staff, both in the hospital and at home. As a result, she is alive and well this week. I cannot think of a better endorsement. You never know when you may need to call upon your relationship with your child to save her life.
Thank you Dr. Crowder.

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Summary: This Book Saved My Daughter's Life!
Review: As an Elementary School Principal, I am always on the lookout for books which will make a parent's life easier. This time I found one that not only helped the parents at my school, it saved my daughter's life. Whether a parent-child relationship needs a major overhaul or just needs a bit of fine-tuning, this book makes a real difference. We are using it continuously as a resource for both parents and teachers at my school.

But it is my personal experience with this book that sold me on its value. First, it helped me to recognize the problems that I was having with my strong-willed 4 year old. Next, it showed me how to recognize the behaviors that I was choosing that contribute to those problems. Once I swallowed my pride, I realized that things could be better. The best part was finding that the solutions that Dr. Crowder suggested were easily accomplished and really did work! I was amazed at how quickly I saw a change in our relationship. No more sass, no more subtle defiance. I am so used to books that take months to make a difference. This book made sense and made it easy to have a realtionship with my daughter that is now even more delightlful than before.

On a final note, I bless the day I read this book and decided to improve my relationship with my daughter. It literally may have saved her life. Shortly after completing the book, my daughter was hospitalized with a life threatening illness. Her compliance with the medical staff and my ability to perform follow-up care for her at home was dependent upon her willingness to do things repeatedly (22 times a day!) that were often either painful or "yucky!". With Dr. Crowder's help, my daughter was called a model patient by the mediacl staff, both in the hospital and at home. As a result, she is alive and well this week. I cannot think of a better endorsement. You never know when you may need to call upon your relationship with your child to save her life.
Thank you Dr. Crowder.

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Summary: I don't think so!
Review: I bought this book hoping to get some ideas for helping my 4 year old son to sleep a bit more independently. Once I started reading it, I was torn between laughing hysterically and wanting to have the author charged with child abuse.

Crowder starts out with an excellent premise, that parents should be in control and not get caught up in power struggles with their children. However,the consequences for negative behavior that Crowder recommends are just too extreme. The two examples that stand out in my mind are: 1) sending a child to school with no lunch or lunch money if they are not cooperating with making their school lunch and 2) if a child doesn't put their backpack away when arriving home from school, hide it in the trunk of your car, sending the child to school the next day with no backpack and no completed homework.

Yes, I am sure those measures would make the point. Aren't there some steps in between a parent could take that would be a hair less drastic? Steps that make the point without being cruel?

Crowder makes no allowances for what to do if the child doesn't kow-tow to her consequences. What if the kid doesn't care if they went to school with no homework? What if the three year old who won't stay in bed doesn't fall asleep on the floor (as Crowder says he will) and instead wanders the house at night, and ingests poisonous materials?

I dread the thought of a new parent picking this book up and actually trying to implement the ideas.

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Summary: Plain old common sense works
Review: My daughters are 19 months and 3 months old. I read this book to nip any problems in the bud. I didn't want to wait until there were problems and then have to correct them. I was quite relieved to learn that parenting style is the same as the one the author describes it should be. My parents had this same parenting style and there were never any eating, sleeping, or getting up problems. My brother and I knew that we had to do our homework, get up for school on time and go to bed. There were no if ands, or buts about it. This parenting style works and as far as I'm concerned it's just plain common sense. Not only that, but it works on other people's children too. Parents don't understand why their child will listen to me and not to them. It's all in the book. It's a good, quick and informative read.

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Summary: Plain old common sense works
Review: This book is excellent at providing practical suggestions for families to use. I have followed Dr. Crowder's suggestions and found that with consistency they do make a difference. A must read for every parent!

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Summary: Making Life Easier
Review: This book is excellent at providing practical suggestions for families to use. I have followed Dr. Crowder's suggestions and found that with consistency they do make a difference. A must read for every parent!