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Overview
Winner of a 2003 National Parenting Publications Gold Award!
The Baffled Parent's Guide to Stopping Bad Behavior shows parents how to keep bad behavior to a minimum. Written by a mother of three, this concise guide addresses specific normal behavior issues of children from toddler hood through early school years—including tantrums, talking back, and aggressiveness, as well as coping with bedtime and getting ready in the morning—and includes fourteen simple practices for inspiring good behavior in young children.
Synopsis
Winner of a 2003 National Parenting Publications Gold Award!
Quick, effective solutions for stopping bad behavior and getting your family back on track
Tantrums. Hitting. Open defiance. A child's bursts of bad behavior can leave parents completely baffled. But while there's no such thing as a perfect child, there are effective ways to redirect poor behavior. The Baffled Parent's Guide to Stopping Bad Behavior has fast answers to defuse any situation.
Organized by topic for easy access and designed to help make family life as harmonious as possible, this hands-on guide provides advice to correct bad behavior, create new responses to previously annoying behavior, and establish an atmosphere that encourages good behavior. Inside, you'll discover:
- How to discipline with care, caution, and consistency
- The importance of setting a good example
- How to speak to your child so that he or she will listen
- The proper use of timeouts
- How to handle tantrums
- Great ideas to stop whining
- Ways to suggest replacing "good" words for "bad" words
- And much more!
Kate Kelly is the author of the bestselling Complete Idiots Guide to Parenting a Teenager and Raising Happy Children.