Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
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End Those Power Struggles and Begin Connecting with Your Child
Noted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her bestselling Raising Your Spirited Child. Now she hits upon another crucial parenting topic: coping with the everyday challenges of disciplining your child, while understanding the issues behind his or her behavior. In Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles, she offers unique approaches to solving the daily, and often draining, power struggles between you and your child. Kurcinka views these conflicts as rich opportunities to teach your child essential life skills, like how to deal with strong emotions and problem solve. With her successful strategies, you'll be able to identify the trigger situations that set off these struggles and get to the root of the emotions and needs of you and your child.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649
EAN: 9780060930431
ISBN: 0060930438
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: 2001-02-20
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Summary: every parent needs to read this
Comment: This is an amazing book! It explains why our kids do and act the way they do and how our response as parents helps or hinders this. A must read!
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Summary: The Go-To Mom's Pick of The Year
Comment: This is one of the best parenting books that I have read in the last two years. Kurcinka is eloquent, moving and direct. If you are a parent and are looking for a high quality book, you should buy this now - It by far surpasses any parenting book on the market today. I am licensed child clinician and use this book as my text book when I teach my courses on positive discipline. Other books that you may find helpful are: How To Talk So Kids Can Listen, Got the Baby Where's the Maual, Between Parent and Child, Raising an Emotinally Intelligent Child,Discipline Without Distress and Undconditional Parenting.
Kimberley Clayton Blaine, MA, MFT
Licensed Child Therapist
Founder, www.TheGoToMom.TV
Author: Mommy Confidence: 8 Easy Steps to Reclaiming Balance, Motivation, and Your Inner Diva
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Summary: good addition to your parenting library
Comment: when i started reading this book, i found the author's advice to lack much parental backbone. however, as i kept reading i actually found that the author raised some excellent points. i learned more about myself and my child through her sections on personality assessment. most parenting books say "don't explain, just act/punish." i feel explaining has been helpful to our son and in the end will help him become a more emotionally intelligent human being. i would not have this book as the only parenting book on the shelf, but it makes a good companion to 1.2.3. Magic or books advocating that style of discipline.
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Summary: Excellent, approachable book on working with your child's temperament
Comment: I bought three books at the same time from Amazon: Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles; How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk; and Kids Are Worth It! and read them in that order. Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles was my favorite because it really explained some key things for me. For example, I have a much better understanding of introverts and extroverts, which actually benefits my marriage most of all. I'm an extrovert who thinks while I talk, but my husband is an introvert who wants to be alone in a corner pondering how he feels. Because of this book, I'm able to give my husband the time he needs to figure out his emotions and I don't go crazy trying to get him to talk. Our daughter is an extrovert like me, so I know Daddy will need quiet time away from us noisy extroverts.
Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles covers so many things, including anger and how it affects us physiologically, understanding that there's a reason behind your child's tantrum or tears, determining your child's temperament, and teaching life skills in a constructive way. But most of all, this book does it in a way that doesn't make feel like I'm not a good enough parent or that this book's philosophy is the only way to view things. I will probably use most of the things this book teaches in my parenting, and I can't say that about the other two books I purchased at the same time.
To sum up this book, I would say that it's very approachable, the recommendations are helpful and doable immediately, and there are some very good examples to illustrate what the author is trying to teach us. If you're interested in learning about a parenting method that incorporates little or no spanking, includes quality time understanding your child's temperament and then teaching your child words to go with his/her feelings, and offers opportunities to problem-solve and negotiate *with* your child, this is an excellent book.
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Summary: Great book
Comment: What I liked most about this book is that I felt like you could read one chapter, work on some things then read the next. I don't have time to sit down & read a whole book but a chapter or 2 per week works for me.
It really makes a lot of sense that your children have so many different emotions but don't know how to express them. I read this at the same time as siblings without rivalry and they really complemented each other.
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