Change Your Child's Behavior by Changing Yours: 13 New Tricks to Get Kids to Cooperate

A new approach for dealing with the most common—and seemingly intractable—battles of will between parents and children. Authoritative and sound but lighthearted and guilt-free all of the authors suggestions work toward building a childs self-esteem.. Two simple but powerful ideas stand behind this books advice for coping with childrens behavior problems: you can change your childs behavior by changing the way you react to theirs; and you must accept that much of what unnerves parents is actually appropriate to the various stages of a childs development.. Change Your Childs Behavior by Changing Yours tackles thirteen particularly difficult situations that prompt most tugs-of-wills including conflicts involving bedtime dressing eating going places shopping and sibling rivalry. Each chapter opens with a section called Sound Familiar? that describes a scenario parents will quickly recognize. Authors Chernofsky and Gage then identify the development stage that is prompting the distressing behavior help parents to relate the childs behavior in a somewhat parallel situation and offer strategies for coping with and changing the situation for the better.