Reviewed by 10 members
RRP: $29.99
Publisher: Random House New Zealand, 2007
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Many parents have been struggling with the naughty chair, the thinking step, consequences, punishments and what their response should be to the new "anti-smacking" law change. Well known and highly regarded family therapist and bestselling author Diane Levy provides timely and brilliantly helpful advice on how to make parents lives easier.
Time out is a vital parenting tool and in this book Diane Levy explains how best to use it in all situations for children of all ages. She believes children must be taught to experience and handle their emotions and they must learn self-discipline. Her two main parenting tenets - emotional support and limit setting - are crucial to an understanding of time out. The first responsibility of parents is to give children emotional support so that they will have the courage to have the experiences and do the learning that they need to become emotionally independent adults. The second responsibility is to set suitable boundaries and expectations so that they can safely tread the path from undisciplined babies to self-disciplined adults. Diane believes that time out is the ideal way to discipline children.
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Check out other hugely popular parenting books by Diane Levy :
They Look So Lovely When They're Asleep
Of Course I Love You... Now Go To Your Room!
well worth buying, 18 Dec, 2007
By kltwinkle
just brought this 4 days ago..yet another brilliant book from Diane Levy
a great read, 7 Mar, 2008
By 2nzboys
I thoroughly recommend this book to all parents struggling to get their children to do what they're told to do.
I really like that she's placed her ideas about effective time out and other strategies into the bigger picture of what we as parents are trying to do, bring up and develop well rounded children. I also like that her approach can be used with toddlers, primary schoolers and teenagers.
And as a family, we appreciate Diane's focus on low energy approaches for dealing with kids as we think that this makes it more likely that we will be consistent in our approach with our boys.
Great Info, 12 Apr, 2008
By magnet0
Everything in this book was brilliant. The only negative that it isn't a "5 minute skip to the appropriate bit" book. I really needed to put aside the time to read it in order to use the techniques effectively. But, Diane has done it again and come up with wonderful solutions for helping our willful little darlings!
wonderful book, 4 May, 2008
By arnav
This one of my favorite books. I love the way that Diane Levy writes in a warm, humourous style that is entertaing to read and yet you pick up little tips and lessons along the way. I would highly recommend this book.
Time out for tots, teens & everyone in between, 31 May, 2008
By Girl4God
Still reading through this book but already it has given me ideas and what I have got from it so far seems to be working - go Diane! Will update once I've finished the book.