Change Your Child'S Behavior By Changing Yours: 13 New Tricks to Get Kids to Cooperate - Softcover

Covering a variety of common situations involving parent-child conflict, an authoritative guide explains how parents can alter their own behavior to alleviate tensions and offers strategies for coping with and changing problem situations. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Two simple but powerful ideas stand behind this book's advice for coping with children's behavior problems: you can change your child's 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 child's development. Change Your Child's 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 child's behavior in a somewhat parallel situation, and offer strategies for coping with and changing the situation for the better.