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You've tried everything you you can
think of,
but nothing you do seems to have any effect on your child's
chronic procrastinating. The school called again to complain that
your daughter is still bullying the other kids in her class, and
you don't know how to make her stop without becoming a bully
yourself. Your son explodes in anger if he loses at
anything -- sports or even fun family games. And your kids
constantly argue with each other and with you. If you're looking
for a different way to handle problems like these, this book is
for you. Written by internationally acclaimed parenting author Dr.
Myrna Shure, Thinking Parent, Thinking Child arms you with powerful
techniques for dealing with these and dozens of other issues
confronting today's parents.
In her national bestseller Raising a Thinking Child, Dr. Shure
introduced parents to her original "I Can Problem Solve"
approach to teaching children the critical thinking skills they
need to solve problems on their own. Now, in Thinking Parent,
Thinking Child, she shows how to apply "I Can Problem Solve"
techniques to the top concerns of parents and children from
preschoolers through those in their preteen years. Not only will
children learn to think about their own and others' feelings,
they'll also learn to appreciate that you have feelings, too.
You'll see how weighing your options before responding to your
children will inspire them to weigh their options. As you reflect
on your own behavior toward your children, you may wonder, "Is
time-out really useful?" or "Will spanking help or hurt?" And just
as you want your child to listen to you, you'll find yourself
asking, "Am I really listening to him?"
The important lessons presented in this book go far beyond how to
manage or control specific problems. Instead, you'll be able to
help your child find her own best solutions to problems -- ranging
from getting her homework done to test anxiety to teasing to being
teased to peer pressure.
Thinking Parent, Thinking Child gives you tools to help your kids
become less aggressive, inhibited, and fearful, and more
cooperative, empathic, and better able to handle life's frustrations and disappointments.
Praise
for Thinking
Parent, Thinking Child
"Myrna Shure's approach stresses
the necessity of having both child and parent learn to think
through effective strategies for handling common problems. This
balanced perspective will find a solid endorsement from today's
guilt-laden parents who hear all too often that the responsibility
for harmonious family functioning lies totally with them." --Bettye
Caldwell, Ph.D., past president of the National Association for
the Education of Young Children
"Unlike the advice of so many
'parenting experts,' the effectiveness of Dr. Shure's work has
been scientifically validated. If you want to prepare your child
to become a happy, successful, functional adult, this book is a
must." --Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., coauthor of Raising Resilient
Children
"Dr. Shure empowers parents to
boost their children's emotional thinking skills. Her real-life
vignettes reveal that children can learn how to create solutions
for their problems." --Alice S. Honig, Ph.D., professor emerita of
child development at Syracuse University
"Myrna Shure applies her unique and
proven problem-solving approach to a wide range of challenges and
helps parents think through sensible and usable solutions."
--Susan Ginsberg, Ed.D., editor and publisher of Work & Family
Life newsletter
"Based on many years of research
and development, the book carries on the tradition of Benjamin
Spock as a resource for giving self-confidence to parents and support to their children." --James
G. Kelly, Ph.D., professor
emeritus of psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Order
Thinking Parent, Thinking Child at
Amazon.com
or Barnes
& Noble.com
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