The Big Book of Parenting Solutions
101 Answers to the Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries
Oct 1, 2009
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions offers advice for dealing with children's most difficult actions and hot button issues. It is written for parents of children age 3-13 and provides easy to implement suggestions for the most important challenges parents sometimes face. It contains answers to some of the most perplexing kid conundrums, from early childhood to challenges like thumb sucking and tantrums to later behavior like bullying and drug use to universals like adoption and divorce.
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions Overview
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions is written in cookbook style so that parents can go to specific topics pertinent to the actual situation being dealt with in their family. The author, Michele Borba, begin on a sympathetic note of understanding that contemporary parents feel more stressed and find their roles increasingly difficult.
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions includes:
- Immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems challenges
- Clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts
- A wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow that get fast results
- Age appropriate solutions
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions Topics
Among the topics covered are:
- Seven deadly parenting styles including helicopter, buddy, incubator, bandage, paranoid, accessory parenting and secondary parenting
- Family, behavior, character, emotions, social scene, school, special needs, day-to-day and electronics
- Sibling rivalry, lying and peer pressure, cell phone use and TV addiction
- Cyberbullying
- Growing up too soon
- Cheating
- Eating Disorders
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions Problem Solving
Among the hundreds of simple tips that are based on proven research and if used consistently will bring results are examples such as:
- Get Attention: Lower the voice almost to a whisper and then say your request. Kids aren't used to a quiet request.
- Reduce fear: Expose the child to a fear in small manageable doses and help them develop a statement to speak back to the worry ("Go away worry!" or "I can do this.")
- Curb a tantrum: The longer attention is given to a tantrum the longer it lasts, Ignore, ignore, ignore.
- Nurture kindness: Encourage the child to use the Two Praise Rule everyday. "Say or do at least two kind things to someone." Random acts of kindness really are catchy.
- Curb nagging: Say "no" the first time and don't back down. The average kid nags nine times knowing the parent will give in.
- Friendship builder: The two most commonly used traits of well-liked kids are "smiling" and "encouraging." Reinforce those traits to boost the child's friendship quotient.
With The Big Book of Parenting Solutions as a guide, parents can take on frustrating child-rearing issues such as bedtime battles, chores wars, overscheduling, bad friends, back talk, selfishness and anger.
About the Author:
Michele Borba, Ed.D is a Today show contributor and recipient of the National Educator Award, is recognized for her practical, solution-based strategies. She is the author of 22 books including Building Moral Intelligence and No More Misbehavin'. She also appears on Dr. Phil, The View and CNN. She serves on the advisory board of Parents Magazine.
Borba, Michele. The Big Book of Parenting Solutions. Hoboken, N.J.: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
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