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How to Discipline Your Six-To-Twelve Year Old...Without Losing Your Mind
Discipline Without Shouting Or Spanking became a best-seller by proving practical, effective advice on common behavioral problems to parents of children under six. Here the authors adapt their winning formula for older youngsters.
- GenresParenting
248 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1990
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July 8, 2012
Utterly worthless.
This book contains stellar suggestions such as this, for when your child repeatedly tells lies:
Tell him to stop lying. Check up on every statement he makes. If he says he hit a baseball during a ballgame at school, call his teacher to verify the statement, don't just believe it. (I am paraphrasing here, but that was genuine advice given.)
I skimmed the rest of the book, only to find out 1.) some other library patron had marked several useful pages by folding the corners down and 2.) underlined and drew brackets around sections. Just to make sure I wasn't casting aside some hidden pearls of wisdom, I read those sections as well.
Garbage.
Sad that Robert Fulghum blurbed it. I did notice that he said it passed the Grandfather Test, though. Advice a grandfather would give, etc.
And that's sadly exactly why books like this are needed. Our parents, if they can be reached or relied upon for help at all in raising our children, are often filled with useless advice, as a result of being removed from the trenches of child-rearing for so long. If you need help teaching your child to tie his shoes, for instance, you don't need someone to tell you "Well, have him put the socks on his feet first, then the shoes." Unfortunately, that's a bit more amusing than the dry, ridiculously earnest tone this book takes in dispensing the most common of common sense.
Recommend instead Michele Borba's Building Moral Intelligence. Five STARS, everyone you know should read it, kids or no kids. Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing
This book contains stellar suggestions such as this, for when your child repeatedly tells lies:
Tell him to stop lying. Check up on every statement he makes. If he says he hit a baseball during a ballgame at school, call his teacher to verify the statement, don't just believe it. (I am paraphrasing here, but that was genuine advice given.)
I skimmed the rest of the book, only to find out 1.) some other library patron had marked several useful pages by folding the corners down and 2.) underlined and drew brackets around sections. Just to make sure I wasn't casting aside some hidden pearls of wisdom, I read those sections as well.
Garbage.
Sad that Robert Fulghum blurbed it. I did notice that he said it passed the Grandfather Test, though. Advice a grandfather would give, etc.
And that's sadly exactly why books like this are needed. Our parents, if they can be reached or relied upon for help at all in raising our children, are often filled with useless advice, as a result of being removed from the trenches of child-rearing for so long. If you need help teaching your child to tie his shoes, for instance, you don't need someone to tell you "Well, have him put the socks on his feet first, then the shoes." Unfortunately, that's a bit more amusing than the dry, ridiculously earnest tone this book takes in dispensing the most common of common sense.
Recommend instead Michele Borba's Building Moral Intelligence. Five STARS, everyone you know should read it, kids or no kids. Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing
March 25, 2015
Lost it anyway - for a while (my mind!) - but it would have been more practical had we been parenting our boy from birth rather than facing life with a spoiled child as so many did to avoid his tantrums! 4 Years on, we've moved him from wanting/getting everything to working for it and therefore appreciating it more. This book has some great points but needs supplementing with other books as discipline is not always the way - understanding and working together is!
April 6, 2008
I got this at the church book sale- thanks Holly! Why did she give it away? I like a lot of the ideas- disengage, Beth, disengage!!!
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