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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I don’t have this book YET but have had a look at it while browsing the local bookshop. I will definitely be getting it.
Bible for those who which to survive of the years of challenges thrown
at you, as a parent, by your child/ren. Written by a New Zealander for
the New Zealand environment/culture. It is a witty, educational,
entertaining book, without the preaching or making you feel like a
failing bad parent!Â
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.
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.
Yup another great from Diane Levy.
I like the writting style, its
informative but warm. You know she has been through what you are going
through, and is specking from experience.
The ideas are great and can be used on all ages.
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.
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.
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!
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.
just brought this 4 days ago..yet another brilliant book from Diane Levy