Children: The Challenge : The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations--Intelligent, Humane & Eminently Practical (Plume)
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Rudolf Dreikurs Vicki Soltz
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Children:The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This warm and reassuring reference helps parents to understand their children's actions better, giving them the guidance necessary to discipline lovingly and effectively.
Publisher: Plume
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Straight from the horse's mouth - The theories exposed in this book were a huge eye-opener for me.
They gave me the keys to decode my kids' behavior.
This is psychiatry at its best. Once you understand why your kids do what they do, you are much better equipped.
Some examples are outdated. Yet, overall, most examples are very interesting.
The absolute must-read are the first 3 chapters: "Understanding the child", "Encouragement" and "The child's mistaken goals".
I've read several other parenting books. This book feels like the original version. In retrospect, reading the others was a waste of time.
Talk of a book that has made a change in my life. I plan on re-reading this book every now and then to make sure that I'm always fresh on these theories.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Children: The Challenge - Children, The Challenge is the closest thing to a parenting handbook that I have found this lifetime. You will need to read it twice. The first time you read it, you will hit yourself over the head with it thinking, "These ideas are so simple. Why didn't I think of them?" The second time through, the concepts really sink in. Simple, easy direction for the layperson trying to understand how to empower their children AND themselves at the same time. Addressing logical versus natural consequences, full of heart, logic and compassion, this book should be mandatory reading for anyone dealing with children, or anyone dealing with adults who act like children. It really gives a new meaning to the concept of response-ability. Spirit Journeys: Freeing the Soul in this Life and Beyond, Healing Thoughts: Applying Therapeutic Shamanism in Your Daily Life
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Much needed help for parents - They say babies don't come with an instruction manual, but many child rearing books exist to help us navigate our way through the most rewarding and challenging endeavor that is parenting. This book offers many excellent insights that have been immediately helpful for our family. I strongly recommend it, despite its being outdated on occasion (referring to the child's job being school, the dad's job as working at the office and the mom's job as taking care of the home!). Despite the few instances of showing its age, the ideas for communicating with children and setting boundaries that don't crush their spirits are timeless.
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Children: The Challenge - Few books can be an helpful for a harried parent than Rudolf Dreikurs book, Children: The Challenge. Each chapter is like a tool in a tool box that you pull from memory as situations arise with your child. While the book was written many, many years ago, it continues as a classic that I can't recommend highly enough. This copy was bought so I could refresh my skills as a first time grandmother. Each short chapter is one lesson, one essential tool. I found it unforgettable of all the books I read when my own child was little...
Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Children: the challene - After 35 years it is still a great book--a little dated in spots but the overall message is right on target.
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