The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries (Child Development)
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Today show's Michele Borba's cures for difficult childhood behaviors In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children's difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens.
- Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges
- Written by Today Show's resident parenting expert Michele Borba
- Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts
- Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results
- Author has written outstanding parenting books including Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin', Don't Give Me that Attitude, and more
Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate.
Product Description
In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children's difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens.
- Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges
- Written by Today Show's resident parenting expert Michele Borba
- Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts
- Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results
- Author has written outstanding parenting books including Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin', Don't Give Me that Attitude, and more
Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate.
Top Ten Proven Parenting Solutions
Content from Dr. Michele Borba
Here is just a sample of the hundreds of proven and simple tips from Dr. Borba’s latest book,
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions. The best news is that these solutions work for all ages, take less than a minute to do, are based on proven research and when consistently used will reap lasting change.
1. Get attention: Lower your voice almost to a whisper and then say your request. Kids aren’t used to a quiet request.
2. Increase positive behavior: Research shows that giving kids the right kind of praise (called “positive reinforcement”) is one of the best ways to shape new behavior. So, catch your kid doing the action you want. Just make sure your praise is specific and tells your child exactly what he did right. (Adding “because” or “that” takes your praise up a notch. “I’m so impressed that you started your homework all by yourself this time.”)
3. Stretch persistence: Praising the child’s effort (“You’re working so hard”) and not inherent intelligence (”You’re so smart”) is proven to enhance perseverance and performance, but the child is also more likely to bounce back from a mistake—all because he feels success is not mixed.
4. Reduce fear: Expose your 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!”)
5. Curb a tantrum: The longer you give attention to a tantrum the longer it lasts. Ignore, ignore, ignore!
6. Nurture kindness: Encourage your 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!
7. Increase assertiveness: Stress: “Look at the color of the talker’s eyes.” Using eye contact helps kids appear confident. Strong body posture also helps a child be less likely to be bullied.
8. Friendship builder: The two most commonly used traits of well-liked kids are “smiling” and “encouraging.” Reinforce those traits in your child to boost his friendship quotient.
9. Develop healthy eating habits. Eating relaxed family meals regularly enhances kids’ psychosocial well- being, boosts grades and deters behaviors like smoking and drinking and eating disorders as well as teaches the child healthy eating habits.
10. Curb nagging. Say "no" the first time and don’t back down. The average kid nags nine times knowing the parent will give in.
Customer Reviews
Worthwhile book for new parents
This book is easy to read and well organized. I can't say that the solutions are always that effective but it's still an interesting read.
2010-01-14
(Los Angeles, CA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
The Parenting Encyclopedia is HERE!
For over ten years I have had the pleasure of referring the families in our pediatric practice to Michele Borba's books. Michele is the foremost educator in the US. She is an avid researcher and consummate author. Sorting through difficult real-life challenges, Michele provides parents with solutions you can use on a moment's notice. Michele's solutions are practical, thoughtful and actionable.
Need to know how to calm anxious children, protect your children from bullying, raise moral kids and more... This is the book you keep on your kitchen counter and refer back to day after day!
This is The Parenting Encyclopedia, a must-have for every parent!
2010-01-06
| Media Mom (Everywhere) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Good Parenting Book!
Michele Borba's Parenting Solutions book is one of the good parenting books that offers solutions for everyday parenting struggles.It gives scenarios, suggestions, examples, research studies and models how to tackle challenges in bringing up kids ages 3-13 yrs. It is written in a very simple language and the book has been divided into various topics for easy reference. Although the book looks big, it has been very well-organized with subheadings, bullets and it also has helpful advice and parents answer section. This book has signs and symptoms which you can read and watch for in your kids. I especially liked sections like behavior, character, emotions and school. I have followed few of the suggestions and ideas offered in this book and it has really worked very well.
2009-12-22
(St Louis) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
Very Comprehensive
My goodness, what a sizable tome this is!
My child is a baby, but I still decided to get this book and start reading through some parts to polish my parenting skills. I want to be armed with the wisdom to spot and cope with various issues that will inevitably arise as my child develops. It's not my intent to become an overbearing parent that smothers their child in cotton wool and defends them from every danger and this book takes a similar line, acting more as a coach to help the parent understand the pressures and desires that their child may be influenced by and how to tactfully and strategically deal with the situation.
I recommend that you have a look at the Table of Contents, using the "Look Inside" feature. There is a comprehensive list of subjects that are dealt with in this book and it will give you some idea of its broad scope.
This book will definitely see a lot of use as my child grows and it will be a companion through those times of difficulty, helping me to understand my child better and for me to become a wiser parent. Parenting is really all about experience and I feel that this book will help me gain that experience much faster and maybe even help me to avoid making mistakes too!
2009-12-17
| Tinz (Colorado Springs, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
A Practical and Comprehensive Parenting Guide
This massive volume is packed with guidance on handling children from adolescence to teen age years. Filed with countless examples and straightforward tactics, there is no doubt if seeking to be a more effective parent you will find what you are searching for.
The only area I would have liked to have seen is a little focus on dealing with toddlers and the stresses of the terrible twos; however, in all other aspects this book is spot on. Borba is a clear and direct writer and constantly offers many logical and practical approaches making this book well worth its price.
2009-12-10
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4
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