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The Baffled Parent's Guide to Stopping Bad Behavior

by Kate Kelly

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A topic-by-topic guide to challenging behavior

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of a 2003 National Parenting Publications Gold Award

    Winner of a 2003 National Parenting Publications Gold Award.

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A topic-by-topic guide to challenging behavior

Kate Kelly’s guide organizes parenting advice around common behavior challenges, including tantrums, hitting, defiance, and whining. Its practical scope also includes communication, setting an example, using timeouts, and encouraging children to replace hurtful language with more constructive words. The topic-based format is designed for parents seeking guidance on a particular situation, while the broader aim is to help establish responses and routines that encourage good behavior at home.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Parents seeking practical guidance on specific behavior challenges
  • Adults interested in discipline, communication, and behavior-shaping strategies

Themes

Child behavior and disciplineParent-child communicationModeling and encouraging positive behavior

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Book overview

Winner of a 2003 National Parenting Publications Gold Award!

Quick, effective solutions for stopping bad behavior and getting your family back on track

Tantrums. Hitting. Open defiance. A child's bursts of bad behavior can leave parents completely baffled. But while there's no such thing as a perfect child, there are effective ways to redirect poor behavior. The Baffled Parent's Guide to Stopping Bad Behavior has fast answers to defuse any situation.

Organized by topic for easy access and designed to help make family life as harmonious as possible, this hands-on guide provides advice to correct bad behavior, create new responses to previously annoying behavior, and establish an atmosphere that encourages good behavior. Inside, you'll discover:

  • How to discipline with care, caution, and consistency
  • The importance of setting a good example
  • How to speak to your child so that he or she will listen
  • The proper use of timeouts
  • How to handle tantrums
  • Great ideas to stop whining
  • Ways to suggest replacing "good" words for "bad" words
  • And much more!
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