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Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days By Dr. Kevin Leman

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Peace in our house-that's what this book brought to our family. 5 stars that's the highest I can give?? Really??? If you want to be back in the driver's seat with your children Dr. Leman has a plan just for you. He spins just the right amount of humor with information. I'm a preschool teacher and I have several copies of this book on hand to share with parents who are frustrated and at the end of their rope with their children. The first part of this book lays out the behavior modification plan, the rest of the book(a healthy portion of it) has common situations that arise with children and gives a specific plan.

This really is a good book for someone with children at least 3 years and older. My husband and I read it together each night for our "us" time. It promoted great discussion. For most of the advice, you need to be able to explain something to the child. I have a 14 month old and a new 2 year old... they are not quite at the explaining phase, however, the "Don't give them what they want when throwing a fit, say no, and walk away," part helps. I am glad to have it though to help with upcoming trials we will face and perhaps to lay the ground work so we won't really need a "New Kid by Friday."

This book was a little disappointing. Kevin Leman writes wonderful, humorous and extremely helpful books. His book "Sex Begins in the Kitchen" is hysterical but so true and helpful. I expected the same from this book. That's why I'm disappointed. The book has great advice but don't expect to "have a new kid by Friday." A child's behavior can just not be changed that quickly. I guess I was expecting miracles and they were not delivered. If you want to change your child's behavior, buy the book just expect to give it more time than five days. That's my main issue with the book. I have no reason to believe his methods will not work. They just take time like everything else that's new to learn.

My mother bought "Have a new kid by Friday" for me a while back, and I would recommend it to any parent. Its an entertaining read and practical advice. Both my kids are now teens so I have also just purchased "Have a new Teen by Friday" plus ".... A new Husband" and ".....A New You" for kindle. I will review those once I've read them all. I also enjoy posts from Dr Leman on Facebook!

Every parent should be required to read this book. Excellent information and help to parents. I'm a grandparent and read it and using the advise to help me guide my grandchildren. I bought the book for my son and his fiancee who have six children (3 each). His fiancee told me she tried one of the "things in the book" on her youngest child and it worked. She was so excited.

I was sceptical about this but I must admit that it works...It is absolutely amazing and would recommend this book to anyone who has children, or even is planning on having children. I also bought how to have a new teenager by friday!!!

This is a great book for all parents. As a Marriage and Family Therapist I have recommended several times. 9 out of 10 parents have found is useful. Some parents have commented that their children are "just too far gone" for the advice in this book.

Excellent book which gives me the will to keep on keeping on. I felt I already used & shared much of the principles in this book but needed to be a little more consistant & this book motivated me do be so!

This is a great book! I haven't had a chance to implement everything in it, but I can tell you I have an aweful lot more peace and a lot less tears in my family since I started implementing what I have so far. I can't wait to see what happens after I get everything together and functioning ona regular basis. I even gave a copy to my x-husband for Christmas because it has been such a great improvement on my end with the kids!

Doc

Kevin Leaman brings insight into parenting not only from his counseling years but also from parenting. He is down to earth & practical in his approach, but more importantly, his suggestions work.