Parent Effectiveness Training (Paperback)

~ Thomas Gordon (Author)

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Product Description

Parent Effectiveness Training is a proven method to bring parents and their children together and to show parents how to help their children become mature, healthy, happy, and loving individuals. Hundreds of thousands of parents have completed Dr. Thomas Gordon's P.E.T. training course with tangible results. The system is designed to work with children of all ages, from the very young up through the rebellious adolescent years. In P.E.T. , Gordon gives examples of families who have succeeded and explains all the steps necessary for less fighting, fewer tantrums, and closer and more trusting relationships.

"The 'no-lose' method that has become a national movement." --The New York Times

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Plume (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452264618
• ISBN-13: 978-0452264618
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #552,544 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EVERY one needs to know!, May 18, 2000

By	Pat Maurer (Tallahassee, FL United States) - See all my reviews

Every person alive can benefit from reading this book. I've just finished it & already see improvement between me and my 3 teens(and feel more forgiving toward my own parents, teachers). Parent Effectiveness Training translates into ALL relationships and makes them BETTER! Thank you a MILLION times.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for All Parents, June 3, 2002

By	Darlene Goodfellow "darlene_goodfellow" (Morehead City, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: P.E.T. Parent Effectiveness Training (Hardcover)

I believe all parents or would be parents should have a copy of this book. It would be a great baby shower gift. Helps you understand yourself and children, and actually makes you like yourself and children. I can't say enough on this book. It brings the best out in you, and also makes you feel like you are not the only parent on earth who goes through tough times in your home raising kids. The book was written over thirty years ago but still works in this day. I use the skills almost all the time with my daughter who is fifteen and I have had the most conversation I have ever had with her since applying the skills the book suggested. Truly the most effective book on parenting I have ever read.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Certainly one of the best books on parenting ever written, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

Tom Gordon's communication and problem solving based approach to raising children is undoubtedly one of the most powerful aids ever devised. The book alone is not enough. Communication and solving problems is behavior and it has to be learned and practiced.