Loving without Spoiling - Hardcover

Samalin, Nancy; Whitney, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809295512 ISBN 13: 9780809295517

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

Nancy Samalin, one of the most influential and widely respected parenting authorities in the country, offers her 100 top tips for raising great kids, based on the concerns she hears most often from parents in her seminars and workshops. Ms. Samalin is known for balancing discipline with love and humor so that parents can enjoy their children more. Her previous, bestselling books have been strong and steady sellers because of her unique style of offering practical, from-the-trenches advice, sprinkled with humor, love of children, and her trademark dialogues from real parents and kids that show both successful and not so successful interactions. This is the first book by Ms. Samalin to be organized by topic for easy access and reference. Parents will find insight on how to handle such typical but tough topics as power struggles, daily stresses, loving without spoiling, establishing and maintaining good communication, encouraging sibling harmony, teaching social skills, and developing your own parenting style and philosophy. Within each of these larger topics are more specific problems such as temper tantrums, whining, curing "the gimmes," gaining cooperation, jumpstarting a dawdler without nagging, and keeping good humor most of the time.

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"Nancy Samalin's wonderfully wise book belies the notion that children don't come with an instruction manual. This is it! Her practical advice on setting loving limits takes parents well beyond discipline and provides lasting lessons in raising caring, confident kids."
Ann Pleshette Murphy, Parenting Correspondent, "ABC News," "Good Morning America," and "Mother Know How" columnist for Family Circle

"Wonderful advice with specific ideas to help in those frustrating parenting moments. Read it from cover to cover or flip through to find help with your problem-du-jour."
Vicki Lansky, Author of Feed Me I'm Yours, Games Babies Play, and Practical Parenting Tips

Let's face it, as parents we never plan on sounding exactly like our own parents. But after your toddler has asked you "Why?" for the fifth time in a row, your eight-year-old has an incurable case of the "gimmes," and your defiant ten-year-old won't take no for an answer, those completely ineffective words come flying uncontrollably out of your mouth: "Because I'm your mother, that's why!" It didn't work on you when you were a kid, and it's not working for your kids now that you're a parent. But no parent wants to raise a spoiled kid. We all want to raise children who are caring, compassionate, honest, and responsible. In Loving Without Spoiling, bestselling author Nancy Samalin will help you find better ways to set loving limits without spoiling or overindulging your child.

Nancy Samalin has been showing parents how to balance discipline, love, and humor since 1976 when she founded Parent Guidance Workshops. The author of the bestselling Loving Your Child Is Not Enough, she is considered one of today's most influential and widely respected parenting authorities in the country. In her immensely practical, often entertaining style, Nancy Samalin shares her hundred best tips for raising great kids with unconditional love but without being a pushover parent. Through real-life parent-child dialogues and "from the front lines" advice, you'll learn practical, guilt-free, and parent-tested ways to handle any parenting issue that gets thrown at you.

Organized by general categories for quick reference and then broken down into more specific topics, Loving Without Spoiling offers positive strategies and commonsense solutions to countless parenting challenges. It helps you deal with:

-Power struggles: tame the tantrums, stop the whining, set rules that stick
-The communication gap: stop repeating yourself, keep it simple, connect with your kids
-Sibling rivalry: nix the tattling, get out of the fairness trap, minimize the fighting
-Everyday clashes: win the bedtime wars, avoid homework battles, diminish dawdling, cure the "gimmes"

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809295512
• ISBN 13: 9780809295517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256