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Smile Store - Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days
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List Price: $17.99
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Manufacturer: Revell
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.64
EAN: 9780800719029
ISBN: 0800719026
Label: Revell
Manufacturer: Revell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Publisher: Revell
Studio: Revell
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Editorial Reviews:
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Anyone who has dealt with a strong-willed child knows that it is no easy task to turn bad behavior around. But the popularity of TV programs like Supernanny and Nanny 911 shows that parents have had it up to here and are ready to try anything to get their children to behave. Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman is here to help. Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child's attitude, behavior, and character, it contains chapters for each day of the week and a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls and much, much more. This large section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action. EXCERPT FROM CATALOG I've got news for you. Since the beginning of time, kids have been unionized, and they've got a game plan to drive you bonkers. Don't believe it? Take a look around….In today's society, kids even shorter than a yardstick are calling the shots. Some hedonistic little suckers of the ankle-biter battalion have even graduated to emeritus status and are holding down the hormone group division. Then there's the already-adult children who return home to your cozy little nest and stay and stay and stay…. You know all about that. If you picked up this book, you picked it up for a reason. You'd like to see a few things--or maybe many--change in your house. You may have small concerns, or big concerns, about your child at this point.… I'll be blunt. You got a big job to do as a parent, and a short window to do it in. If you believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, this book is for you. If you don't believe that you, as a parent, are to be in healthy authority over your child, put this book down right now and buy another.… But I've got a Midas muffler guarantee for you. If you stick to the simple strategies in this book--strategies that any parent can carry out--you'll have a new kid by Friday. You can have a great kid, and you can be a great parent. Your relationship with your child can change in just one week.
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Summary: What if your kid doesn't care?
Comment: We have a simple household. We don't do much. Which makes things this book suggests hard. From what I gather, this book is based on activites your child enjoys being taken away or put off until the task you've asked to be done (and you tell them only once) gets done. I actually have to put things in our schedule to make that happen! Even then, my kids don't care. So where's my pull?
The hardest part is homework. (And since school just started, this would be the best time for this.) My daughter isn't doing work at school or at home right now. What she doesn't get done at school is supposed to get done at home, hence homework. But I tell her to do her work, she doesn't do it, it goes back to school and the teacher doesn't do a thing about it. So now what?
I'm ready to throw the book out and go back to pushing my kid to do things. Anybody have suggestions?
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Summary: Great parental advice
Comment: Dr. Kevin Leman's book Have a New Kid by Friday is a must read for all parents. It offers great advice to parents with kids from infants adolescents. I found it to be one of the most valuable parenting helps I have ever read.
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Summary: Fabulous Book
Comment: This is the best book a parent could read. It came just at the right day. If you have kids, you need this book. I thought I was a pretty good parent, I know I can make my life a whole lot better for me and my whole family.
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Summary: Have a New Kid by Friday
Comment: As a teacher of over 25 years and a mother of three young adults, I found this book to be refreshing. There are too many parents today who are letting their children tell them what to do, where to go, and how to do it. This book reminds parents to be parents and gives them practical and easy examples that they can use in their families. This is also an excellent book for teachers who may have a difficult student and want to find a way that will help that child turn around and become a productive learner.
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Summary: Get Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen instead
Comment: What a letdown! Listen, if you think your kids are "hedonistic little suckers," then maybe this book is right for you. There is very little content; it's the informational equivalent of junk food from McDonalds. An example of the kind of advice you'll get: if you ask your child to take out the trash and they forget, then let them guess why you won't take them to the store sometime in the future. The Guess Why I'm Not Happy Technique has never worked with my dear husband; why would anyone expect it to work with a child? I wouldn't call that Assertive Parenting, would you? I'd call that Passive-Agressive parenting, and who needs a book for that?
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