Picking Your Battles: Winning Strategies for Raising Well-Behaved Kids

Picking Your Battles: Winning Strategies for Raising Well-Behaved Kids
by Bonnie Maslin

Picking Your Battles: Winning Strategies for Raising Well-Behaved Kids
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Author: Bonnie Maslin
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2004-05-19
ISBN: 0312263783
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Book Review: Good ideas, but average book
Summary: 3 Stars

This book should be much, much shorter. I think there was no editing before printing; a good editor would thin out the spreading, messy tree of Bonnie Maslin's thoughts and make this a book that would be far more readable. The author keeps repeating same things over and over; I read three or four sentences and they were all saying the same with a bit different words. Yes, repetition is the mother of wisdom, but endless repetition is exhausting and creates confusion, not wisdom.
Exhausted is the reader, exhausted would be a child raised by Maslin's book. Talking and explaining ad nauseam is the core of author's strategy. You misbehaved? Tell me, what are the reasons behind it. We're gonna talk about our feelings. I have to lovingly explain to you I'm angry, how do I feel and why am I angry. Then we're gonna talk about the consequences and we're gonna plan a solution. I have to (lovingly) ground you for a week, because... yes, let me explain, why am I grounding you! And how do you feel about it? Do you have any ideas we could work into your punishment?
The pity is, there are good ideas in the book. If you take out the essential elements and wash away all the gunk, you have the fundamentals of a good raising strategy. The chapters about what do "ordinary" parents wrong and how can they avoid it are good; the chapter on developmental psychology (here called "kidology") and how does it affect behavior are useful.
So, I'm giving three stars, because this is worth reading (the babbling sequences can be jumped over), but not awesome.

Summary of Picking Your Battles: Winning Strategies for Raising Well-Behaved Kids

How often as parents do we promise ourselves that we won't "sweat the small stuff" when it comes to our kids? And how often does our concern--or our tight schedules--make us do exactly that?

In a non-judgemental voice that speaks to parents everywhere, the author shows how to avoid "no-win" discipline styles and instead set limits, develop a child's sense of self-discipline, and use anger positively to survive the hassles and headaches of everyday life. With a unique and effective combination of authority and accessibility, Maslin gives parents both the big picture on understanding their child and step-by-step solutions to those inevitable battles they will face.

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