Before Your Kids Drive You Crazy, Read This!

Book excerpt: How do you raise well-behaved children in an increasingly badly behaved world?What counts as a well-behaved child anyway?When should I be the friend and when should I be the parent?My kids aren't badly behaved, they're just gifted/sensitive/creative, or am I fooling myself?Why is it so hard being the parent I thought I would be?For harassed parents struggling to understand why they end up screaming at their kids and tearing their hair out trying to make them understand that their behaviour has inevitable consequences, here is the ultimate guidebook!Practical, commonsense answers, easy to understand explanations and, most importantly, realistic strategies and appropriate behavioural modification tools that work, from a family therapist who has seen almost everything there is to see in the range of child behaviours - and knows all about arsenic hour.Written in down-to-earth language with some original and workable options for you to try, this book needs to be handed out at birth. An essential toolkit for the modern parent who knows it can and should be better than it is.