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Parenting without Stress: How to Raise Responsible Kids While Keeping a Life of Your Own
Parenting Without Stress: How to Raise Responsible Kids While Keeping a Life of Your Own is a transformative book shows parents how to reduce their stress with their children and have their kids WANT to do what their parents would like. The book is unique because its approach is totally noncoercive, yet not permissive. People who use the author's unique approach reduce stress for all involved, promote responsibility, improve relationships, become more effective, and continually find parenting a joy. Disagreements are easily handled, impulsive behavior is eliminated, and conflicts even between siblings are significantly reduced.
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First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Marvin Marshall
12 books2 followersDr. Marvin Marshall demonstrates how to reduce stress, use authority WITHOUT coercion, and avoid counterwill—the natural human tendency to resist coercion. His HIERARCHY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT is used around the world to promote responsible behavior by using internal motivation—rather than external approaches of threats, imposed punishments, or rewards to control.
His YouTube channel, "Marvin Marshall's Stress Management Tips" shows how to implement these approaches.
He is a professional speaker who is often interviewed in television and radio programs. He has presented in 44 of the United States and in 25 countries on 5 continents to organizations and companies, schools, school districts, universities, and international and foreign governments.
He is a former educator who still has a passion to improve education as indicated by his charity, Discipline Without Stress, Inc. Any U.S. K-12 school can receive his materials at no charge by completing a simple application and agreeing to try his totally noncoercive (but never permissive) system. He also has an online program to show teachers how to motivate students and handle every behavior problem at DisciplineOnline.com.
His newest book, "LIVE WITHOUT STRESS: How to Enjoy the Journey," has received the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award in 2017. The U.S. Review of books described the book as follows: "Live Without Stress, Dr. Marvin Marshall, Piper Press - This book is a fresh and innovating read that details the various ways individuals can improve their lives by shedding the psychologically debilitating exoskeleton of stress. Marshall states that people are affected by their mental states, and fear paralyzes and traps them in a self-imposed shell, one they perceive to be their armor or strength, but in reality it is an anchor weighing them down, miring them in misery. Despite the heavy subject matter, the writing is bright and lively, uplifting and nurturing, offering insights and shedding light into those dark corners of our fear where we seldom venture and, if trapped, never escape."
This is his third in his trilogy of "without stress" books. His others are "DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS: How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning" and his multiple-award winning parenting book, "PARENTING WITHOUT STRESS: How to Raise Responsible Kids While Keeping a Life of Your Own"
His WithoutStress.com has abundant free resources on living, teaching, and parenting without stress.
Dr. Marshall earned his Bachelor's in Language Arts and his Masters' in Business Administration at California State University, Los Angeles. His Doctorate in Education was awarded by the University of Southern California.
His YouTube channel, "Marvin Marshall's Stress Management Tips" shows how to implement these approaches.
He is a professional speaker who is often interviewed in television and radio programs. He has presented in 44 of the United States and in 25 countries on 5 continents to organizations and companies, schools, school districts, universities, and international and foreign governments.
He is a former educator who still has a passion to improve education as indicated by his charity, Discipline Without Stress, Inc. Any U.S. K-12 school can receive his materials at no charge by completing a simple application and agreeing to try his totally noncoercive (but never permissive) system. He also has an online program to show teachers how to motivate students and handle every behavior problem at DisciplineOnline.com.
His newest book, "LIVE WITHOUT STRESS: How to Enjoy the Journey," has received the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award in 2017. The U.S. Review of books described the book as follows: "Live Without Stress, Dr. Marvin Marshall, Piper Press - This book is a fresh and innovating read that details the various ways individuals can improve their lives by shedding the psychologically debilitating exoskeleton of stress. Marshall states that people are affected by their mental states, and fear paralyzes and traps them in a self-imposed shell, one they perceive to be their armor or strength, but in reality it is an anchor weighing them down, miring them in misery. Despite the heavy subject matter, the writing is bright and lively, uplifting and nurturing, offering insights and shedding light into those dark corners of our fear where we seldom venture and, if trapped, never escape."
This is his third in his trilogy of "without stress" books. His others are "DISCIPLINE WITHOUT STRESS: How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning" and his multiple-award winning parenting book, "PARENTING WITHOUT STRESS: How to Raise Responsible Kids While Keeping a Life of Your Own"
His WithoutStress.com has abundant free resources on living, teaching, and parenting without stress.
Dr. Marshall earned his Bachelor's in Language Arts and his Masters' in Business Administration at California State University, Los Angeles. His Doctorate in Education was awarded by the University of Southern California.
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December 3, 2020
I'm going to start with a complaint, but overall this is a great book every parent should read. Please don't get me wrong.
Maybe it's because this is the 4th or 5th parenting book I've read lately, but these drive me nuts when they provide an example of something they're suggesting and then everything works perfectly forever and always. And then they lived happily ever after.
I'm not claiming to have perfectly followed everything either, but when I try out these methods on my kids, they almost never work immediately or necessitate many more attempts at making it work. And I get that that's what these are really made for, the long-term work. But, I would love a little more honestly because it's hard not to feel disappointed when the methods don't work right away ... just like the perfect example provided in the book.
Okay, rant over.
Now, I'm definitely planning to enact the methods described in this book, just with some realistic expectations. The Raise method seems really good and I like this work toward training responsibility and looking at the goals.
The book really goes off on punishments and rewards, pretty much looping them into the same boat causing the child to think of the consequences of doing the thing (whether pain or reward) versus what you're actually trying to teach. For instance, most kids in school get punished due to the teachers either wanting the child to obey or out of malice. But if we're looking at increasing respect, learning, anything from the perspective of the child, the punishments are not going to work and they become repeat offenders throughout their school careers.
I listened to this on Audible and the narrator, Nancy Sellers, was perfect. She was so good and easy to listen to on a faster speed while maintaining understanding. The only funky thing was that this is a male writing the book and things done from the male perspective in the book being read by a female would slightly throw me off sometimes. Emphasis on slightly.
4 out of 5 Stars (highly recommended)
Maybe it's because this is the 4th or 5th parenting book I've read lately, but these drive me nuts when they provide an example of something they're suggesting and then everything works perfectly forever and always. And then they lived happily ever after.
I'm not claiming to have perfectly followed everything either, but when I try out these methods on my kids, they almost never work immediately or necessitate many more attempts at making it work. And I get that that's what these are really made for, the long-term work. But, I would love a little more honestly because it's hard not to feel disappointed when the methods don't work right away ... just like the perfect example provided in the book.
Okay, rant over.
Now, I'm definitely planning to enact the methods described in this book, just with some realistic expectations. The Raise method seems really good and I like this work toward training responsibility and looking at the goals.
The book really goes off on punishments and rewards, pretty much looping them into the same boat causing the child to think of the consequences of doing the thing (whether pain or reward) versus what you're actually trying to teach. For instance, most kids in school get punished due to the teachers either wanting the child to obey or out of malice. But if we're looking at increasing respect, learning, anything from the perspective of the child, the punishments are not going to work and they become repeat offenders throughout their school careers.
I listened to this on Audible and the narrator, Nancy Sellers, was perfect. She was so good and easy to listen to on a faster speed while maintaining understanding. The only funky thing was that this is a male writing the book and things done from the male perspective in the book being read by a female would slightly throw me off sometimes. Emphasis on slightly.
4 out of 5 Stars (highly recommended)
January 22, 2022
A great compliment to Discipline Without Distress. Already, the Raise the Responsibility system is working with my 6 year old, as are reflexive questions, rather than telling. A great tool to teach children to think and be responsible on their own.
May 25, 2013
Highly recommend to all parents! Gives good advice and new perspectives n children.
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