How to Unspoil Your Child Fast: A Speedy, Complete Guide to Contented Children and Happy Parents [Kindle Edition]

Richard Bromfield (Author)

Book Description

You don't have to say yes to prove that you love them.

"Describes helpful, pertinent, and loving ways to correct spoiled behavior before it becomes a serious problem."
-ParentWorld

Nearly 95% of parents feel like they are overindulging their children, but feel powerless to stopping themselves.

How to Unspoil Your Child Fast offers a straightforward and practical solution to fixing and preventing the problems of spoiling your children and offers concrete tips, simple strategies, and easy action steps for reversing the effects almost immediately. Feel more confident, competent, and parent more consistently while instilling character and self-reliance in your children today.

What parents are saying:

"Wonderful, trenchant, and desperately needed."

"Short, sweet and to the point for those of us who don't have time to waste."

"Truly sensible and useful."

"Although my daughters like being doted on, they think I parent better...when I utilize many of Dr. Bromfield's suggestions. I highly recommend this book."

"A snappy read, so you can't claim you don't have time. And the method's simple, so you can't pretend you aren't qualified to use it."
-Newsday

Editorial Reviews

Review

"It's a snappy read, so you can't claim you don't have time. And the method's simple, so you can't pretend you aren't qualified to use it." Newsday, -- Kristin Taveira, Newsday, December 31, 2007

It's a lively, engaging, helpful book that offers a look at our generation of parents and why we're tempted to indulge our children. -- Nell Casey, Cookie Magazine

Offers practical advice with great empathy and wit, and shows parents how they can drastically improve their family life. -- Rochelle Sharpe, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

This concise read offers quick and easy info for parents struggling with their self-focused (aka spoiled) child, and describes helpful, pertinent and loving ways to correct spoiled behavior before it becomes a serious problem. A must-read for today's overindulgent parents -- Ashley Haugen, ParentWorld.com

From the Author

I aspired to take what parents and children had taught me for 30 years of practice and put it into a quick and doable plan that can quickly turn a home around.

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Product Details

• File Size: 509 KB
• Print Length: 248 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1402242069
• Publisher: Sourcebooks (September 1, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0040RKX2E
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,419 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Short, sweet and to the point for those of us who don't have time to waste! April 25, 2008

By D. B.

Format:Paperback

As a mother of 3 I am constantly reading books on parenting and this one is one of the best, if not the best, I've ever read. If you have ever been in therapy and just wanted the therapist to hurry up and tell you what you need to do this is the book for you. I have read it twice so far and have seen wonderful changes in my children and myself. So many in my generation seem to be clueless about child training (myself included) and this is just what we needed.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful Parenting Book February 26, 2008

By Kelly R. Martignetti

Format:Paperback

I have worried about "spoiling" my children by giving them too much, doing too much, wanting somehow to help them avoid the painful moments of childhood and adolescence. My intentions are to parent well, but I sometimes forget that oftentimes that means needing to step back and allow my children to work hard, experience pain, toil, and reap the rewards of those experiences. In "How to Unspoil Your Child Fast," Dr. Bromfield illustrates the many ways to do just that. I found this book extremely helpful and upon reading it, I began to examine and tweak specific ways I parent. Dr. Bromfield writes as an expert child/family psychologist, but also as a parent himself. It is clear from this book that he has thought hard, researched, and written from his own experiences. Although my daughters like being doted on, they think I parent better--more consistently, fairly, evenhandedly--when I utilize many of Dr. Bromfield's suggestions. I highly recommend this book.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Spoiled again! November 25, 2007

By Ned Weisman

Format:Paperback

In simple prose, Dr. Bromfield helps unravel the complicated processes by which parents become ineffective with their children. He is very direct in pinpointing what is at stake while also helping parents understand how to reverse the pernicious effects of "spoiling." He outlines the "unspoiling" process in straightforward concepts, without minimizing the complexities but offering advice to help parents feel more competent and hopeful. I am a child therapist who has spent many years dealing with problems of "spoiled" children. I believe frustrated parents will find help and support in Dr. Bromfield's sage advice.

More About the Author

Richard Bromfield, Ph.D. is on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School. He writes about children, families, therapy, and Asperger Disorder for parents, general readers and professionals. (See www.RichardBromfield.com to learn more about his work and books.)