Parenting With Respect and Peacefulness/the Most Difficult Job in the World

by Louise A. Dietzel

Creates an atmosphere for children to maximize their development as they feel loved, valued and safe.

250 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 1995

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book, and I feel fortunate for stumbling across a free copy. It presents ideas that can be found in other books, but it does so in a way that doesn't make you feel like an awful failure as a parent. It also doesn't bludgeon you with a narrow set of parenting tools that are coldly applied or make you feel like a stubborn troglodyte if you're skeptical (I'm looking at you, Dreikurs.). I only took off one star because it would be helpful to have more explicit techniques that can be applied simply in the heat of a problematic situation (which is something Dreikurs does well, aside from a bit of "of course my methods always work" hubris).