From the Back Cover The compassion, help, and proven solutions you need to manageand prevent difficult child behavior. Your child is a small miracle that you treasure immensely. When your child misbehaves, however, it can lead to feeling that you have failed as a parent, often followed by family, friends, and even strangers offering well-intended but stress-inducing advice. As part of the What Now? series, Better Behavior for Ages 2-10 was written to share author Dr. Tara Egans clinically-proven methods for handling, modifying, and most importantly, completely preventing difficult behavior. Included is an easy to understand and implement success model that you will start to benefit from right away! Dr. Taras strategies and advice are small pearls of wisdom about child behavior that work like magic. From learning the importance of role modeling to motivating and disciplining in a way that will reinforce good behaviorBetter Behavior for Ages 2-10 will guide you every step of the way. This book offers effective solutions for eliminating stress while strengthening the loving relationship between you and your child. how do you kill time on the internet Better Behavior for Ages 2-10: Small Miracles that Work like Magic (What Now?)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Success!By Richard ED JonesThis is a tremendous book. Dr. Egan has done parents everywhere a great service in laying out such a simple and common-sense layer of ideas on dealing with your child.Babies are one thing. They're easy to understand. Exhausting, but easy to understand. As long as you know the difference between poop, play, eat and sleep, you're good to go.Unfortunately, once they hit around 2, they start to get minds of their own. They want to dress a certain way. They want to do what they want to do when they want to do it because they want to do it. They want to cut their own hair. It gets real ugly real quick.Or, at least, it could. Fortunately Tara Egan is here to put her years of experience in the field to our use. It's almost as good as having the good doctor in your home giving pointers. This recipe for success is good because it is aimed not only at correcting difficult behavior, but, ultimately, preventing that bad behavior from happening at all. That is a goal for which we all can strive. Although, probably not the kids. They still want what they want etc. etc.Since they're not going to read the book and straighten up, that means it's down to us parents to do it for them. Thank goodness Tara Egan got there first.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Great ideas in a great formatBy MLR97I love the format of this book. Parents don't have a lot of time to read page after page of parenting theory. This book gives simple, practical advice in small sections with a number of examples to show how to put that advice in every day situations. Though I'm sure many frustrated parents would benefit from reading this book cover to cover it is easy to jump to a section that is most relevant for any specific problem.I definitely recommend this book to all parents of young kids.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A must read for parents of young children. I needed this book 10 years ago!By LaraTThis book was a quick, easy read and full of pearls of wisdom from someone who not only has the educational background and credentials to provide them but is also a parent of young children herself and uses these strategies on a daily basis. The book is packed with examples, pull-out quotes, and diagrams that are visually appealing, which to me made the reading go by much quicker than reading a how-to book that is just pages and pages of text. As a parent of three children, including two with ADHD, I would like to amplify the section on encouraging better listening and communication. The strategies Dr. Egan provides are helpful for all children, but they are absolutely crucial for children who have ADHD. Parents of children with ADHD learn that rattling off long lists of tasks or asking their children to do something without eye contact will yield zero results and be extremely frustrating for both the children and their parents. Incorporating the suggestions will go a long way toward improving the behavior of the child and level of peace in the household. Highly recommended for both parents of young children as well as elementary school educators.