Parenting Difficult Children: Strategies for Parents of Preschoolers to Preteens

Michael Hammond

doi:10.5771/9781442238480

Summary

Parenting young children is a challenge, and dealing with difficult or problem behavior can set up an atmosphere of tension and strife—not just between the child and the parents, but between parents as well. Parenting Difficult Children provides a method of removing that tension with specific strategies for parents of children age three to twelve who are exhibiting difficult or common negative behaviors.

Here, a seasoned psychologist uses the expertise he’s attained through decades of clinical practice to provide parents with a practical and realistic approach to dealing with young children in order to extinguish negative behaviors and forge a stronger and more loving bond between parent and child. Using stories from his practice, coupled with the received knowledge of his field, he explores those actions and behaviors that result in more disciplined children, and happier families.

Part one includes specific instruction on building a secure foundation of rules, discipline methods, communication skills, conflict resolution skills, and reinforcers for positive, desired behavior. Part two focuses on problem behaviors and what to do about them. Millions of parents of young children around the world crave detailed, specific, behavioral interventions that can be easily understood and applied to ensure great parenting success. They will find a good start in these pages.

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Copyright Year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-3847-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-3848-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 206
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
1. 1 Rules 101 No access
2. 2 Rules 102 No access
3. 3 Natural and Logical Consequences No access
4. 4 Active Consequences for Challenging Situations No access
5. 5 Level Systems, Point Economies, and Contracts No access
6. 6 Distraction/Diversion, Ignoring, Time-Out, Shaping, and Punishments That You Should Never Use No access
7. 7 Communication That Gets the Results You Want No access
8. 8 Conflict Resolution with Children No access
9. 9 Reinforcers for Behaviors You Want to See Repeated No access
1. 10 Arguing No access
2. 11 Backtalk No access
3. 12 Bullying No access
4. 13 Cheating No access
5. 14 Chore Completion No access
6. 15 Fighting No access
7. 16 Friends No access
8. 17 Information Technology No access
9. 18 Lying No access
10. 19 Manners No access
11. 20 School Assignments and Homework No access
12. 21 Sibling Fighting No access
13. 22 Stealing No access
14. 23 Swearing No access
15. 24 Television and Video Games No access
16. 25 Truancy and Misbehavior in School No access
17. 26 Whereabouts and Curfews No access
18. Epilogue No access
Suggested Readings No access Pages 197 - 198
Index No access Pages 199 - 206