Four Steps to Responsibility: Techniques to Lead Children to Responsible Decision Making [Audio Cassette]

Jim Fay (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1998

Jim Fay shares the secret about why parents who are not afraid to allow their children to fail, raise young people who are independent, responsible decision-makers with high self-concepts. This tape presents strategies parents can use to equip children to handle today's problems and tomorrow's challenges.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Love & Logic Pr (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944634052
• ISBN-13: 978-0944634059
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,550,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #71 in Books > Books on Cassette > Parenting & Families > General
  • #80 in Books > Books on Cassette > Parenting & Families > Parenting

Customer Reviews

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Effective techniques shared by an entertaining speaker., December 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Four Steps to Responsibility: Techniques to Lead Children to Responsible Decision Making (Audio Cassette)

First, this tape is fun. Fim Fay is an excellent speaker with a pleasant voice who describes the techniques through entertaining anecdotes. Second, and most important, the 4-step technqiue Jim Fay describes is logical and better yet, extremely effective. I searched a long time for techniques that helped me to parent in an effective way. I knew I didn't want to bark orders like a drill sergeant, plead like a wimp, but to communicate with love and still maintain firm boundaries needed for healthy development. This tape, as well as others from the Fay and Cline Love and Logic series, helped me learn techniques that help my children grow into responsible adults while maintaining my dignity, and allowing my children to maintain their dignity. I am a psychologist who teaches at a university. While I had knowledge of the psychological and behavioral principles that should help me to be an effective parent, I did not know how to put them into practice. When I listened to this tape and read the other Love and Logic books I knew these techniques would work! I use these techniques with my children, my students, my husband, supervisor and coworkers. Sound behavioral techniques work with anyone, and that's what the 4-steps to responsibility are.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "MUST HAVE" FOR ALL PARENTS AND TEACHERS., April 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Four Steps to Responsibility: Techniques to Lead Children to Responsible Decision Making (Audio Cassette)

THIS CLEARLY DEMONSRATES THE "OBLIGATION" OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS TO PREPARE KIDS FOR THE REAL WORLD BY EXPERIENCING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS INSTEAD OF ALWAYS RUNNING INTERFERENCE AND SENDING MESSAGES THAT STUNT GROWTH AND DEVELOP THE COMMON "IT'S NOT MY FAULT" ATTITUDE THAT IS SO PREVASIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE TODAY. I BELIEVE EVERY PRINCIPAL IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE THIS TAPE AND INCORPORATE ITS IDEAS AND PHILOSPHIES INTO THEIR SCHOOLS.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It!, August 25, 2000

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This review is from: Four Steps to Responsibility: Techniques to Lead Children to Responsible Decision Making (Audio Cassette)

The tape is very insightful as well as extremely entertaining. I couldn't wait to get back in my car to hear more. Although the concepts are quite tough (most parents want to rescue their children) it is extremely helpful and most of all - FUN. I so enjoy watching my children problem solve and make decisions - coming up with solutions I had not thought about. Most of the time, they don't make the same mistake twice when they keep the problem on their backs. I have ordered more audiobooks in the Love and Logic series and even one I am donating to my kids school.