Publisher Comments:
Learn how to stop policing and pleading and become the parent
you want to be. You love your children, but if you're like most
parents, you don't always love their behavior. But how can you
guide them without resorting to less-than-optimal behavior yourself?
Dr. Becky Bailey's unusual and powerful approach to parenting
has made thousands of families happier and healthier.
Focusing on self-control and confidence-building
for both parent and child, Dr. Bailey teaches a series of linked
skills to help families move from turmoil to tranquillity:
7 Powers for Self-Control to
help parents model the behavior they want their kids to follow.
These lead to:
7 Basic Discipline Skills to help children manage sticky situations
at home and at school, which will help your children develop:
7 Values for Living, such as integrity, respect, compassion,
responsibility, and more.
Dr. Bailey integrates these principles in a seven-week program
that gets families off to a good start, offering plenty of real-life
anecdotes that illustrate her methods at work. With this inspiring
and practical book in hand, you'll find new ways of understanding
and improving children's behavior, as well as your own.
From Publishers Weekly
A developmental psychology specialist and early childhood education
expert, Bailey contends that the difficult but rewarding task
of guiding children's behavior starts only when parents are able
to discipline themselves and become models of self-control. By
following the author's "7 Powers for Self-Control" (attention,
love, acceptance, perception, intention, free will and unity),
the parent will then be equipped to use the "7 Basic Discipline
Skills" (including choices, encouragement and consequences).
Bailey dismisses the familiar fear-inspired approach to discipline
many grew up with (including threats and punishment), claiming
that it inevitably leads children to make biologically driven
choices and may even effect the brain due to the high levels of
stress hormones released. Also rejecting the permissive parenting
style now popular that favors "reasoning" (which, according
to the author, imbues children with a victim mentality), Bailey
instead promotes instilling an awareness of misbehavior through
communication. Though some may be put off by the gimmicky overuse
of slogans and buzz words, Bailey's underlying message is positive
and hopeful, supported with humorous anecdotes and helpful solutions
to even chronic discipline problems. (Feb.)
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Synopsis:
Dr. Bailey presents seven basic skills of discipline to help children
move "from willful to willing." Down-to-earth anecdotes
show the process in action, and there's a seven-week program for
getting started.
Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D., specializes in early childhood education
and developmental psychology. Her lectures reach more than 20,000
people annually, and her awards include a Parents' Choice Foundation
commendation for three of her parenting audiotapes. She has appeared
on CNN, PBS, and The Hour of Power with Dr. Robert Schuller, among
other programs. She lives in Oviedo, Florida.
