Omnipotent Child

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Summary: A life saver
Review: About a year ago my husband and I realized our sweet little girl had some behaviour problems. We believed we were providing a balance of discipline and love and lots of attention to our child and therefore could not figure out why she was so out of control. As an infant she had been assessed as a "spirited child", which she still is. We took the advice of an infant behaviour therapist, along with the advice in the book "Raising your Spirited child" and just accepted that our daughter was special (that has not changed), and that we could not expose her to standard discipline. By the time she was 4 1/2 we needed help handling her. Our pediatrician recommended we start giving our daughter some consquences to bad behaviour and to stop treating her as a mini adult and most importantly , read this book. I did. I could not believe my eyes. Dr. Millar was describing my child. My husband and I immediately carried out the advice in the book and literally within days our lives changed. We now know we can really enjoy our daughter and I am so thankful we found this book. READ IT!

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Summary: Still Available
Review: I was getting exceedingly frustrated with my 9 year old son. I chalked up his behaviour to being a boy; being emotional and full of energy, but my efforts were getting me nowhere. In fact, his behaviour was deteriorating. While reading this book, I felt like the author had been spying in my home. After the introduction of the Chip System that the author recommends my son went through all the predicted stages of fighting the system. But it was amazing how quickly he, and in fact his younger sister, were able to turn their behaviour around. We now have more peace, loving, energy and cooperation in our household then I would have thought possible.

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Summary: The Omnipotent Child - Third Edition
Review: I was getting exceedingly frustrated with my 9 year old son. I chalked up his behaviour to being a boy; being emotional and full of energy, but my efforts were getting me nowhere. In fact, his behaviour was deteriorating. While reading this book, I felt like the author had been spying in my home. After the introduction of the Chip System that the author recommends my son went through all the predicted stages of fighting the system. But it was amazing how quickly he, and in fact his younger sister, were able to turn their behaviour around. We now have more peace, loving, energy and cooperation in our household then I would have thought possible.

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Summary: Great advice
Review: This book contains an amazing amount of great advice and common sense for parents today. It is very easy to put your child on a pedestal above all others. My husband and I did so with our little one for 5 years. We ended up with a very poorly behaved little girl. This book was recommended to us and our lives have been incredible ever since. We learned how damaging it is to give your child a sense of complete omnipotence. We thought we were building great self-esteem in our child. What we were really doing was creating a child who had little tolerance for others and particularly anything unpleasant. this book gave us the common sense approach to parenting that we needed. Thankyou Dr. Millar for the great book.

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Summary: Great advice
Review: This book contains an amazing amount of great advice and common sense for parents today. It is very easy to put your child on a pedestal above all others. My husband and I did so with our little one for 5 years. We ended up with a very poorly behaved little girl. This book was recommended to us and our lives have been incredible ever since. We learned how damaging it is to give your child a sense of complete omnipotence. We thought we were building great self-esteem in our child. What we were really doing was creating a child who had little tolerance for others and particularly anything unpleasant. this book gave us the common sense approach to parenting that we needed. Thankyou Dr. Millar for the great book.

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Summary: Still Available
Review: When I wrote this review in 04/2004, it said the title was out of print, but there was a link to 4 used copies that ranged in price from $58 to $187. Hogwash! Order directly from the publisher at www.omnipotentchild.com, and receive a brand new, hardback copy.