Parenting Without Punishment: Making Problem Behavior Work for You Paperback – July 1, 1996

Parenting shelves typically contain dozens of books offering endless techniques for behavior modification. This book may be the one that will help parents sort out the worthwhile from the drivel. Maag (Univ. of Nebraska) offers a strict and compassionate approach to behavior, arguing that punishment per se is almost never effective. The trouble is that we expect the good and punish the bad, which only leads to confrontation. Maag deals with how to use reinforcers, star charts, time outs, and contracts, concluding that self-monitoring by kids leads to self-control. Finally, he looks at ADD and depression as behavior problems that parents can deal with rather than as psychiatric labels attached to kids. Maag brings years of working with exasperated parents to his work. Refreshingly full of common sense and well worth reading.?Linda Beck, Indian Valley P.L., Telford, Pa.
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This book will help parents sort out the drivel from the worthwhile. Refreshingly full of common sense and well-worth reading. --Library Journal

This excellent book, a very readable source of important information on behavioral principles and procedures, will have great appeal to parents who need help dealing with their children s problem behaviors. Especially useful for therapists and counselors to give to parents, it explains principles of behavioral analysis in a clear manner, well illustrated with real-life examples, and how they can be applied to a wide range of behavior problems, including ADD, depression and resistant behaviors. For a long time, the use of punishment has been decried by professionals without providing parents with positive alternatives. With the aim of enhancing the lives of both the children and the parents, Parenting Without Punishment is an excellent exception and should be read by every parent. --Journal of Child and Family Studies

No other parenting book has so successfully taken principles of behavior and transformed them into practical, easy-to-follow techniques. --Dr. Jo Webber, former Pres of The Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders

This excellent book, a very readable source of important information on behavioral principles and procedures, will have great appeal to parents who need help dealing with their children s problem behaviors. Especially useful for therapists and counselors to give to parents, it explains principles of behavioral analysis in a clear manner, well illustrated with real-life examples, and how they can be applied to a wide range of behavior problems, including ADD, depression and resistant behaviors. For a long time, the use of punishment has been decried by professionals without providing parents with positive alternatives. With the aim of enhancing the lives of both the children and the parents, Parenting Without Punishment is an excellent exception and should be read by every parent. --Journal of Child and Family Studies

No other parenting book has so successfully taken principles of behavior and transformed them into practical, easy-to-follow techniques. --Dr. Jo Webber, former Pres of The Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders