10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior Author: Ph.D. Jeffrey Bernstein Ph.D. | Language: English | ISBN:
1569243018 | Format: EPUB
10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior Description
About the Author
Jeff Bernstein, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist specializing in child and family therapy in the Philadelphia area who has helped hundreds of defiant children and their families restore their relationships. A well known relationship expert and the author of Why Can't You Read My Mind?, Bernstein has appeared on the Today Show and Court TV, among other venues.
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Marlowe & Company; English Language edition (May 19, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1569243018
- ISBN-13: 978-1569243015
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Have you ever been frustrated with your relationship to your child? Have you ever thought that your child is just being defiant? Maybe you have tried severe punishments and scolding that don't lead to a change in future behavior as you had hoped. Most parents, like my-self experience a children's defiance from time to time, and some experience that defiance 24/7.
Bernstein's book "10 Days to a Less Defiant Child" (I will call "10 Days" from now on) gives parents and teachers new insights and tools in art of raising children. Though Bernstein does not assume the role of telling the parent what specific morals to teach, he offers some tools and some understanding of emotional intelligence that will allow parents to lead and teach rather than the typical chaos that many parents experience.
Here are some of the Key Points of 10 Days:
o Bernstein stresses the importance of learning to listen correctly. When children's feelings are not validated, that in itself many times it causes anger, resentment, and unmet expectations.
o Yelling he says, is counter productive and can easily become a downward spiral. This is for two reasons. The first is that for a calm house to exist there has to be calmness. The second stems from the parenting goal itself to teach children to control their emotions and anger. Yelling itself is a loss of emotional control, and regardless of the message, it teaches children to release their emotions in similar outbursts.
o One of answers to alleviating the dreaded power struggles is to learn to be calm and firm. The call to calm means that we are to keep our emotions in check while at the same time being firm, not negotiating or vacillating on the consequences.
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