Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, Expanded Fourth Edition: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds

by Rex Forehand, Deborah Jones

The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child's behavior—fully updated and revised

In 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child’s self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully build upon their child’s strengths while effectively managing challenging behavior. Packed with brand-new content, this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to integrate state-of-the-field scientific and clinical advances, providing a timely and thorough response to the current issues facing parents of young children. It addresses important new topics,

Understanding parenting and child behavior in context, including effects of the global pandemic, racial disparities, financial strain, and other parenting challengesGreater opportunities for parents to learn proven parenting skills for challenging child behaviors such as noncompliance, whining, and tantrumsHelp for parents to apply new skills to the specific problem behaviors they are facingStrategies for linking the five-week program skills to common parenting challenges, including screen timeUnderstanding how the proven five-week program can help parents of children with ADHD given advances in science and clinical practice in this areaThe importance of parent self-care as they learn the program

Improve the life of your child—and yourself—with valuable lessons and science-backed advice that has helped a generation of parents raise happy, healthy children.

358 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 5, 2023

Reviews

[Rachel Hogan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was kind of disappointed in this book. It's all about punishing your kid into compliance. We would be in time out until the end of time itself. I get the controlling where the attention is given, but the rest is to make a bunch of robot children by punishing your kid all the time. I thought this was going to be such a great book.

[Natalie Angel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was super interesting to read and honestly I found it helpful to refer back to when trying to provide parenting support within my practice. It definitely isn’t made for the kids who have experienced trauma or have been diagnosed with sensitivity/sensory issues/a mood disorder, but I think it makes it clear that this isn’t a one size fits all scenario. And even with the kiddos that may not react in the expected way when doing certain things like ignoring negative behavior, it emphasizes attending as critical to creating connection with your child and creating the changes to support both them and you. This really was the important part of the book overall and I think the rest can be modified to fit however you need in the end. I love the mini steps and the ending having some self care tips that actually seem doable too. Overall, good book and would love to see more focused on kids and families navigating different issues.

[PottWab Regional Library]

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