Change Your Child's Behavior by Changing Yours: 13 New Tricks to Get Kids to Cooperate

A new approach for dealing with the most common--and seemingly intractable--battles of will between parents and children. Authoritative and sound, but lighthearted and guilt-free, all of the authors' suggestions work toward building a child's self-esteem.

Two simple but powerful ideas stand behind this book's advice for coping with children's behavior problems: you can change your child's behavior by changing the way you react to theirs; and you must accept that much of what unnerves parents is actually appropriate to the various stages of a child's development.

Change Your Child's Behavior by Changing Yours tackles thirteen particularly difficult situations that prompt most tugs-of-wills, including conflicts involving bedtime, dressing, eating, going places, shopping, and sibling rivalry. Each chapter opens with a section called "Sound Familiar?" that describes a scenario parents will quickly recognize. Authors Chernofsky and Gage then identify the development stage that is prompting the distressing behavior, help parents to relate the child's behavior in a somewhat parallel situation, and offer strategies for coping with and changing the situation for the better.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Published: 02/13/1996
ISBN: 9780517884638
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.52d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/08/1996 pg. 68
Booklist 02/15/1996 pg. 974