Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict Into Cooperation - Softcover

Bailey Ph.D., Becky A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060007753 ISBN 13: 9780060007751

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 2002

Synopsis

Learn how to stop policing and pleading and become the parent you want to be.You love your children, but if you're like most parents, you don't always love their behavior. But how can you guide them without resorting to less-than-optimal behavior yourself? Dr. Becky Bailey's unusual and powerful approach to parenting has made thousands of families happier and healthier.Focusing on self-control and confidence-building for both parent and child, Dr. Bailey teaches a series of linked skills to help families move from turmoil to tranquility: 7 Powers for Self-Control to help parents model the behavior they want their kids to follow. These lead to: 7 Basic Discipline Skills to help children manage sticky situations at home and a t school, which will help your children develop: 7 Values for Living, such as integrity, respect, compassion, responsibility, and more.Dr. Bailey integrates these principles in a seven-week program that gets families off to a good start, offering plenty of real-life anecdotes that illustrate her methods at work. With this inspiring and practical book in hand, you'll find new ways of understanding and improving children's behavior, as well as your own.

About this title

About the Author:

Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D., specializes in early childhood education and developmental psychology. Her lectures reach more than 20,000 people annually, and her awards include a Parents' Choice Foundation commendation for three of her parenting audiotapes. She has appeared on CNN, PBS, and The Hour of Power with Dr. Robert Schuller, among other programs. She lives in Oviedo, Florida.

Synopsis:

In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well as with their toddler-to-school-age children, offering specific tools to stop pleading with kids and start being the parents we want to be.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060007753
• ISBN 13: 9780060007751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304