publication date: Aug 20, 2007
This is a
well-intentioned book, which would
probably be great for
confident parents. For those of us where our
parenting feels more
balanced on a
knife-edge, I think this offers
little help!
There seems little to
differentiate the first two sections (
Essential parenting attitudes and
Parenting skills and tools), which soon become
repetitive. Much of the
advice and
instruction seems
homespun. The
ideas that
experience has
shown me to be helpful (eg
ignoring minor
bad behaviour) are
buried in amongst the sort of
instruction that tends to
confuse and
undermine parents, for example
telling parents how to
make their children
laugh! This sort of thing
works so differently in
different families, it's a
strange thing to include in a
parenting book.
While the author
acknowledges that raising children is
difficult, there is
no wider discussion of issues such as the
parenting patterns established in our own
childhood, or
emotional problems which can
complicate parenting. This is
apart from a
whole section randomly devoted to
Anger Management.
To me it
seems that this
author has taken her
personal ideas and
experiences and served them up for us here. While they might be
interesting and
helpful
to some, I would
treat with
caution!
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The No-cry Discipline Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behaviour Without Whining, Tantrums and Tears
