The instruction manual that should have come with your child: New skills for frazzled parents

by Daniel G. Amen

Parenting a child is one of the most important responsibilities any of us ever undertake. Yet it does not require any special training period or any prior experience. Parenting difficult children requires "superior" parenting skills. This program is designed to give you the best parenting skills in a fun and practical way. It will give you clear, quick, and lasting results. Dr. Amen has taught this parenting course for the past fifteen years. It is by far one of the most effective tools for helping kids who struggle.

Genres: Parenting, Audiobook, Nonfiction

116 pages, Unknown Binding

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare.com named him the web's most influential expert and advocate on mental health.
Daniel Amen is a life-long Christian and graduate of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine. He is a double board-certified psychiatrist and multiple NY Times bestselling author, with such blockbuster books as Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Healing ADD, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and The Daniel Plan, co-authored by Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman. In November 2016, he and his wife Tana published The Brain Warrior's Way.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 6 locations across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, totaling more than 125,000 SPECT scans on patients from 111 countries.
Dr. Amen's research team has published more than 70 scientific articles on a wide variety of topics related to brain health. He is the lead researcher on the largest brain imaging study on active and retired NFL players and was a consultant on the movie Concussion starring Will Smith. In 2016, Discover Magazine named his brain imaging work for psychiatric diagnoses as one of the top 100 stories in all of science.
Dr. Amen has also hosted 11 national public television shows about the brain, which have aired more than 80,000 times across North America and raised more than 75 million dollars for stations.

You can connect with Dr. Amen on Facebook and Twitter

Reviews

[beno hwang · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty good rules of thumb, straightforward, n' grounded.

[Jason Coleman · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF 5%
Didn’t like the religious undertones.

[Ileana · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s an outdated book with some outdated info, but it also has some solid straightforward advice that is a good reminder.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is really good. I've read a lot of parenting books. While most ramble on, Dr. Amen chooses to instead be succinct in his points. The ideas in here are practical and easy to follow. Most of them I have read before, but never in such an easy to follow format. I'm already using some of the tools with success.

One other thing I like is that Dr. Amen takes on the topic of difficult children -- those with neurological disorders. Most parenting books only address those children who would not be very difficult to manage anyway. I appreciate that the tools in here can also help children who are wired a bit differently.

[Lo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Remember who the adult is

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and sweet and filled with solid common sense advice. No new earth shattering techniques.

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a little outdated, i.e. I'm pretty sure spanking is not recommended ever anymore, but I like the basic ideas. He explains special time as daily one-on-one time with your children and I have noticed when I do that, I get fewer fits and complaints. The trick is to find that time daily. It also might be a little over-simplified, as in his family rules sound too good to be true. But the "one page miracle" for goals is very helpful. I'm going to fill one out now.