Don't Give Me That Attitude!: 24 Rude, Selfish, Insensitive Things Kids Do and How to Stop Them

by Michele Borba

Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things go his way? Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day? Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to do chores? Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems? Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of a home? Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATM machine? What happened? You thought you were doing the best for your child and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive, spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me That Attitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you an effective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic, attitude. If you have a child who is arrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding, domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible, jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded, noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative, ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!

Genres: Parenting

434 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Dr. Michele Borba is an educational psychologist and an author.

Reviews

[Holly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing new here. Just the usual trifecta of:
1) Don't tolerate bad behavior
2) Replace bad behaviors with good behaviors
3) Apply consequences consistently.

My problem with the book is that it is far too long. The author stretched out a concept over hundreds of pages that could've been done in about a third of the space.
Plus, the writing is completely dull.

[Zen Jayne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book I need to read every now and then. Not just for children, it helps me reflect as a person as the self diagnosis part help me identify so many problems in myself as well. Changes isn’t easy and it comes with time and effort. This books offers a pretty amazing tool box if you ever encounter a bottle neck issue. Overall, it’s a book I want to store on my bookshelf as a constant reminder for myself.

[gemma o'hagan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very repetitive unfortunately

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay, I didn’t read the whole thing—only the chapters that pertained to my kids’ issues. I did find out that our parenting may be the root of some problems…. (We’re bossy and demanding with the kids at times, thus they are bossy and demanding.) I don’t really like to hear that, though. I could have sworn I was a perfect parent. Man, what a let-down.

[Chantelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I admit I did not read cover-to-cover -- mainly because it's designed to guide you through specific situations. The advice was good although sometimes not entirely relevant in the real world of parenting. I was able to glean some things that have been helpful, though.

[Lara · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were many, many huge typographical errors all through this book. Kind of annoying. It did have some helpful hints and I particularly appreciated the suggestions of reading for kids on specific issues. Not one I'd recommend to someone else, though.

[Chrystel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book.

[Alisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Specific and clear instructions for dealing with many different behaviors for both parents and children.