Active Parenting: A Parent's Guide to Raising Happy and Successful Children

by Michael Popkin

Dr. Michael Popkin—one of the nation's foremost experts on parent education—explains positive discipline and communication techniques to help your family run more smoothly. This guide shows you why children misbehave and how to redirect them, nonviolent discipline that really works, how to prevent future problems with drugs, and much more. Millions of parents have used this "active" approach to raise courageous, cooperative children—and now you can, too!

Genres: Parenting

219 pages, Paperback

First published October 7, 2014

Reviews

[Anna]

This is a good parenting book to start out with. I appreciated the straightforward techniques proposed and how clearly everything was laid out. At the same time, a lot of the tactics in this book are very simple and I'm not certain how well they'll work with complicated or difficult kids. Still, it's an excellent resource and I'm excited to share it with parents!

[Angel]

Reading this with others proved more beneficial than independently. Though the videos that are connected are cheesy, they are helpful in breaking up and understanding the material (in other words, they're worth seeking out).

This program is clear and concise, though I would appreciate some rearranging in the book (reasons behind behavior could be beneficial to understand before discipline etc.)

[Brittany]

I'm going to skip rating this one since I read it for work, but a read is a read, and I'm not sure how much I'll be reading in September.

[Genavieve Billiet]

read for work - look out parent ed clients i’m here and educated

[Kayla Roberts]

Read this for a parenting class Brandon and I did. It was awesome - a lot of timeless skills for proactively building positive family relationships and intervention skills for misbehavior.