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Transforming the Difficult Child - Updated Edition/2008 By Howard Glasser MAJennifer Easley MA ( Nurtured Heart Publications )
Release Date: 1999-06-01
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Transforming the Difficult Child brings to life a new way of shifting intense children to a solid life of success. The Nurtured Heart Approach puts a refreshing spin on both parenting and teaching and reveals new techniques and strategies that create thoroughly positive behaviors. This is the newly updated 2008 revision.
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 NOT JUST FOR DIFFICULT CHILDREN!! What a helpful book!! ( tatgirltx )
Like many of my peers, I too want to do the best possible job raising my children. The desire to be respectful and supportive does not always involve consistent discipline, but it should! Anyone with a sensitive, loving child can benefit from this book. Any parent who feels like they have tried every trick in the book to promote good behavior in their children, but can't seem to gain compliance in their kids, will benefit from this book.
I was recommended this book by our psychologist, whom we have been seeing because I ran out of coping strategies for dealing with my very sensitive, very smart, and very compliant child who seemed addicted to PUSHING MY BUTTONS!! Turns out, the very emotional responses I had to my child's poor behaviors, was promoting the very things I was trying to "punish away" Time outs escalated into screaming matches and made me feel like a drill Sargent, not very productive, and definitely not respectful or supportive! Transforming the Difficult Child has opened my eyes to "accentuate the positive" and "down play the negative" In short, shifting all of my aggravated tirades into positive reinforcement of GOOD behaviors. Within two weeks of implementing this style of attention, my 5 year old was more relaxed, more cheerful, more agreeable and happier than I had ever seen him. In turn, he was also less anxious, stopped a nervous habit of lip licking that had been with him for two years, and lots of chapped skin! He now knows that he is good MOST of the time, and only bad once in a while. I was failing to acknowledge his good behavior, because that is what we think of as "expected" but He was feeling as if he was always bad, because our energy was always spent on correcting bad behaviors.
Please read this book if you recognize any of the above story, or if you know someone who is in constant power struggles with their children. This book has a simple, gentle, loving and supportive plan of action that will change your Family for the better, even if your child isn't difficult. After all, we all want someone to acknowledge our good behaviors, who better to do it than your parent!!
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Real help for desperate parents of challenging children
We adopted 2 boys through the foster system. Both of our boys have high energy and came to us with some inherent behavioral problems. We were able to help both of our boys with the help of the techniques we learned while attending a seminar taught by Howard Glasser. We've gone back to this book again and again when we needed to refresh our resolve to do conscious parenting. I highly recommend this book. I recently bought my 4th copy of this book because I've given away the first 3 books to people we knew who were struggling with a challenging child.
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Finally The Insight I Desperately Needed!
After much therapy and trying every technique in the book to help my son "behave" better, this book just blew every other technique away! I felt as if it had been written for our family personally.
At the risk of sounding dramatic, this book has brought a lot of peace and happiness into our home, where before there were a lot of power struggles and misbehavior going on.
I teach children in the Arts field, and it has also helped me deal much more effectively with the more difficult students.
I think this book should become a course that parents and educators could take. If it already has, where can I sign up?
This is, hands down, the most valuable book I've read in years!
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Therapist on your nightstand! ( kidsmeditationcdscom )
I thought I knew a lot about 'parenting' until I became one! I have one easy-going child that makes parenting seems like a breeze and one who is so wired and always pushing limits so far that I didn't like the person I was becoming. I was VERY frustrated and came across this book. I hate labeling so I don't like the title much, and carrying it around I wanted to put a darn book cover on it so others would not see it! The contents however are thought-provoking and profound. I never realized the slump that my son and I had gotten into... him pushing, my reacting... everything seemed negative. Things got worse before they got better. I am still reading the book and still implementing the ideas. However, I am realizing that as they say 1. My son enjoys playing with me like his live toy, 2. He always gets my attention by doing something negative.
I have implemented the strategy of noticing him when he's doing something that is not negative, and telling him I notice him in a neutral way (this way I am not giving him false praise but allowing him to see that I really DO pay attention to him). I found that alone has made a huge difference. I also realize that most of my talking to him was "don't......." which is NOT a life for the poor guy! I have stopped reacting to his inappropriate behaviors. In the book they compare it to a video game.... kids do good at video games because if the do wrong, they get an immediate consequence and there's no wiggle room (unlike mom who allows that and can be talked into/out of something), and video games always inspire kids to do better because they are always rewarded with flashing lights and whistles etc. So while I am perhaps a bit preliminary in my review, I have to say that this book is a TRUE help, especially if you are your wits end and ALL the best traditional parenting in the world is JUST NOT WORKING!
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FINALLY a book about my type of kid
After reading numerous books that seemed like sound advice for regular kids, a child counselor recommended this book.
FINALLY I've found a book that seems like it's talking about MY type of challening child. I only wish I had read it years ago.
I too was a bit turned off by the title but thrilled once I began reading. Techniques are applicable to even my non-challeging children so it's easy to get the whole house going in the same direction.
Very Helpful Book!
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