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Summary: Great for step parents too!!
Review: This is a book that I frequently pull out anytime a situation comes up with my children that I just don't know the answer to. Just about any problem, scenario or action that you can ever go through with a child is addressed in this book. The best part? Finding that there is always more than one way to deal with anything and realizing that there may be more than one right way to handle yourself.I have recommended this book to my readers many many times and will many times more.
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Summary: Great for step parents too!!
Review: This is a book that I frequently pull out anytime a situation comes up with my children that I just don't know the answer to. Just about any problem, scenario or action that you can ever go through with a child is addressed in this book. The best part? Finding that there is always more than one way to deal with anything and realizing that there may be more than one right way to handle yourself. I have recommended this book to my readers many many times and will many times more.
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Summary: Lots of ideas for every issue
Review: This is a great handy book to keep around to pick up a few tips anytime you have an issue with your kids and you don't know what to do. Once you look up your topic you get various options -- one of which is bound to work. The A to Z format makes it a snap to find what you're looking for. Includes typical stuff like sibling fights and dawdling to more unusual like won't eat vegetables or doesn't like her hair being washed and shoplifting and being a poor sport and even typical but weird things like nose picking. I keep it on the counter and use it often.
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Summary: Tons of valuable information in a handy, useful format.
Review: This is a terrific book for parents who don't have the time or energy to pore over page after page of theory. Instead, Elizabeth Pantley has communicated a solutions-oriented approach to parenting through a series of practical and concise entries on specific topics that parents will refer to again and again. -Dr. Jane Bluestein, author of THE PARENT'S LITTLE BOOK OF LISTS: Do's and Don'ts of Effective Parenting
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Summary: Help when you need it most: RIGHT NOW.
Review: This is a wonderful and extremely helpful book for looking up quick and informative answers to questions about helping as well as discliplining children. It is alphabetical, so you can look up "Bedtime, getting to bed peacefully" and it offers three great, sane, and loving ideas. The next section is: "Bedtime, staying in bed" so that it is very easy to follow and you can look up almost anything you can think of such as: "not coming when called" and it will say to look up: "Cooperate, doesn't;
or Listening, not". It has helped me tremendously, especially when it is often hard to get a quick, concise answer out of other parenting books when you REALLY need it right away, as the problem is occurring.
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Summary: Got a problem? Get an answer!
Review: This is an amazing book with multiple solutions for every imaginable child-raising problem. I find the solutions to be one step ahead of the standard, typical advice -- which often doesn't work! For example, in the section on picky eaters you won't find the usual advice to "just make them eat what's on their plate" (Those experts obviously don't have kids like mine!) Instead this author gives REAL solutions like: "Allow your child the option to have toast or cereal for dinner ONE day a week. When he knows he can skip one meal he'll make a decision to eat things that aren't favorites and save his 'cereal day' for the day you're having the food he likes least." That worked like a charm in our house of five kids! No more nightly dinner battles! Just one kid sitting with a bowl of cereal LOL This book covers the typical problems perfectly, but also covers unique problems with flair. I use it almost every day for quick tips.
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Summary: an essential road map for the parenting journey
Review: We parents all get lost sometimes, and most of us just don't have the time to wade through weighty tomes of irrelevant advice written for fictional kids. That's where this book is DIFFERENT! Have a problem with backtalk? Simple: just look up "backtalk," and you'll find some practical suggestions that just may work with *your* child. They do with my four! Since I got this book about a month ago, it's developed dogears and rarely sits on the shelf long. It's a great resource written in a no-nonsense style, with a firm but loving approach to children.
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Summary: Perfect for Parents!
Review: What I love about this book is that it not only covers a wide range of situations that most parents find themsleves in and provides several possible solutions for each situation, but it gives us a greater understanding of a child's behavior, motives, and development in the context of the situation. If I can understand a problem better, then I can deal with it with less frustration and more success. Her solutions are recipes for a healthy, happy home. Elizabeth clearly knows kids and parents, and offers a lot of help for us all to raise our children with love and respect. Thanks for giving us this book, Elizabeth!
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Summary: Practical, realistic and amazingly helpful
Review: With 3 kids very close in age I find this book a very handy resource. Written by a parent educator who is also a mother it's filled with practical solutions. Under each topic there are multiple creative options that go beyond the typical advice like time out - and they work very well! A few examples:
Under Siblings, fighting (physcial):
Have the aggressor do a chore for the injured sibling, such as make his bed or take out the trash. (How they love this!) Under Vegetables, won't eat them:
Sneak vegetables into other foods, such as chopped spinach in meat loaf, peas in tuna salad, grated zucchini in hamburgers or Start calling green vegetables Brain Food and let them know it will make them smarter and stronger. Under Parents Anger:
If your anger causes you to strike your child you can control your outbursts...channel your physical reaction into a burst of applause. When you feel yourself about to strike, clap your hands, good and hard and fast while you express your feelings of anger. (It sends a very clear message to your child.) This is a very helpful book and I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: THE parenting book to take busy parents into the year 2000.
Review: WOW, Elizabeth Pantley has done it again. After reading her first book KID COOPERATION (and wearing the pages thin!!), I couldn't wait to read this one. Ms. Pantley has set this book apart from any other parenting book I have read by using a dictionary format. For example, your child is really testing the waters on a particular day when you are already late for that business meeting. Little Andy decides that he knows what's best for him and argues with you about it. You feel he is being disrespectful and decide not to comment until you have had a chance to calm down. (or you really let him have it). Which ever you decide to do, once you have had an opportunity to quickly consult your Perfect Parenting dictionary by simply looking under "Disrespect", you will find the solution that best fits your child and your parenting style. The solutions might even change your parenting style! The quite, reflective manner in which Ms. Pantley portrays each parenting tip, and the possible solutions thereto, enables a parent to better understand the behavior of their child and the steps needed in order to modify their actions or words, so the child understands too. I can honestly say that PERFECT PARENTING will be well read in my house. Every time I feel flustered or lacking in parenting skills, I return to this informative book. After a little research throughout its pages, I am armed and ready for battle!! My four year old twin boys are even reciting some of the lessons learned from this easy to read and understand book. A must read for any parent!! When's the next book coming out, Elizabeth???
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