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How to Discipline Your Six To Twelve Year Old Without Losing Your Mind

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I highly recommend this book for any parent who wishes to delve deep within the psyche of their child. There is a wealth of material here that can be gleaned and utilized in order to make your life, and your child's, more comfortable and relaxed. I have used many techniques in the book already, and they do work! Overall, I rate this book superb and I will continue to learn and use the techniques outlined in order to have a stable, respectful and happy household.

Finally someone has written a book that makes sense. My 9 year old is a good kid with some issues on additude! This was the book to make the difference! She wines I calmly state the house rules and give her a chore to complete! I am no longer the bad mom....She does a wrong! I calmly state her punishment and she now listens. I am sticking to it and it is working! WOW! I recommend this book to anyone that has children and to the teachers out there that teach our children! If we all ban together maybe we can change the meanness out in the world with the next generation! I know mine has changed!The best thing is now she wants to keep her room clean and her responsibilities done because she saw how much fun she could really have! and all the time she wasted by not doing her responsibilities!

I'm kindof a parenting book junkie. I have run acrossed a lot of them and I can't say that I always agree with the author's viewpoint. This book is really great because it brackets out behaviors with age groups and sort of helps the parent understand the child without taking things so personally. It's a great read. I would suggest it to any parent.

Not only is this book in the most boring format and easy to put down, I could have written this book in 2 chapters. The same solutions are brought into every problem. The advice is GOOD, I am not saying it isn't, and most would benefit from reading this book. (If you can stick to reading it) But every chapter is filled with the same thing, build your child up or don't put up with their bad behavior. To me that is common knowledge that many parents don't follow through with. This is not groundbreaking theory. Every chapter has the same suggestion, if you don't do (whatever the misbehavior is) then you will do extra chores for me. And poof! Like magic, the child just changes in 2 days to an angel! Get real, we wouldn't need books like this if we could change our kids behavior this quickly. I didn't look closely enough when I was ordering this book to see that these were the authors of "How to Discipline Your Children Without Spanking". Spare the rod, spoil the child! Sometimes a spanking is a way to let your child know they messed up and you aren't going to put up with the behavior. This gets their attention and after they calm down you can talk about things. Spanking definately isn't the answer in ALL instances. I am a firm believer that only if the child knows a rule (One that is important, not just leaving the tennis shoes in the living room) and decides to break it, then a spanking is in order.

I don't forsee buying any more books from these authors, as I am not interested in reading what I already know.