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And What You Can Do About It
by Bonnie Harris
If you're a parent, you know the feeling. In one moment, with one sentence, a certain look, or a defiant act, your kid pushes your buttons—and you react in a way that you will later regret. In this beautiful, wise, and deeply insightful book, family counselor Bonnie Harris shows you how to defuse parenting "road rage"—and end the action-and-reaction cycle between you and your child once and for all.
Whether you're a parent of an eighteen-month-old or an eighteen-year-old, you'll discover why certain behaviors just seem to drive you crazy. Revealing how the anger of both kids and parents contain hidden messages, this book offers you tools and techniques to gain control of your emotions, see situations differently, react calmly and effectively when your children misbehave, and, most of all, give your kids the help they may really be asking for.
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Based on hundreds of real-life family situations, When Your Kids Push Your Buttons follows a few clear principles and uses insightful self-awareness exercises to show you:
- Why your hot spots usually have more to do with your relationship with your parents than with your children
- Why your own hidden agendas, standards, and assumptions as a parent may be pushing your children to act out
- How to address specific behavior problems, not by getting angry, but by offering new solutions
- How to break free of the past, start parenting with a clean slate, and connect with your children
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When Your Kids Push Your Buttons
And What You Can Do About It
by Bonnie Harris
Warner Books
$14.00
ISBN: 0-446-53015-8
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