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My mother raved about this book and with good cause because I was raised on it's principle's and was an all-around great child up through adulthood (and still am a good kid at 24). She recommended this book for me to read because of the behavioral issues I'm facing with my almost-four year old and I've read almost all the way through it but haven't really found anything I can really use that I haven't already. It's great for someone who might have NO idea about the alternate ways of coercing a young child or even teenager to do something and make them think it was their idea in the first place. I took conflict management in college and learned more from that course about these same ideas in three weekends than in an entire (yet small) book. I definately recommend the book to those who have no prior training but to those that do, try another book. As for me, I'm going to try another. I still give it a "Good" rating though. Mr. Bodenhammer is a competent writer and I have to admire him for the work that he did/does with children in his life.Read full review
This book might work if you only want to gain temporary compliance but at the cost of authenticity (both your and your kid) and fostering a shallow relationship. The ideas based on control and manipulation eventually will backfire because kids do grow up and often find out all of our "tactics" we used to make them do what we want instead of really connect with them and find out what their needs are. Only the idea of the need to control a child is really precarious. They are other and better ways of think of a relationship, specially that of a parent and child. Thomas Gordon, Alfie John, Shefali Tsabari, Aletha Solter are other authors that speak in a enlighten way about how to understand that special relationship with our children's.
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This is a straight up self help book on how to deal with children. It uses real life case studies of problem children MUCH worse than yours... because the principles work at every level. It isn’t magic and requires work but is worth it!
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I really liked the books way of explaining the diffent ways in wich people have learned parenting. I felt that the basic idea was let your "Yes" mean "Yes" and your "No" mean "No". A lot of us don't really know what that means. This book does a pretty good job of explaining it. Great Book! :)
This book will teach you the magic words when dealing with children. They are not 'please' and 'thank you'.......they are 'nevertheless' and 'irregardless'. This book will liberate you if you have a difficult, belligerant child. This book may save your child from an out-of-home placement.
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