Change Your Child's Behavior by Changing Yours: 13 New Tricks to Get Kids to Cooperate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780517884638)

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.

Author: Barbara Chernofsky, Diane Gage
ISBN-10: 0517884631
ISBN-13: 9780517884638
Publisher: Harmony/Rodale
Language: English
Published: 02/13/1996
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/08/1996 pg. 68
Booklist 02/15/1996 pg. 974