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	• The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills Alan E. Kazdin Houghton Mifflin, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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A parent's best friend - The most practical, well-researched book for dealing with your child's difficult behavior.

There are three things that parents need to know about this book.

1) the methods described here have been extensively researched for several decades by one of the world's very best and most dedicated scientists. When Kazdin talks about the value of punishment versus rewards, for example, or how to make punishment more effective, there is deep knowledge and science behind his suggestions.

2) the book is for parents - not teachers, therapists, or academics - it is directly relevant for everyday parenting.

3) it works. Use the methods and techniques in this book and your child's behavior will improve ... and just as important, your relationship with him or her will improve.

And finally, the book is quite comprehensive. It covers the typical situations such as refusing to do homework, the the less common ones of how to deal with joint custody. Or how to deal with pre-adolescents differently from adolescents, etc. Or how to enlist teachers, babysitters and others so that you are all giving your child the same message.

Buy this book, but more importantly ... use it. It will make a real difference.

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Must for parents

This is a wonderfully helpful book on behavior modification in children and, for that matter adolescents, teens and adults, All new parents should read this before their child is at the stage when behavior has to be modified !

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Breaks parenting myths.

This book has turned around our three and four year old children. I wake up now to happy kids who want to get up and get ready for the day and go places. We have gone from feeling like we are on a parental battleground for tasks just to get out the door to having mutually rewarding relationships and conversations with our kids. Mom and Dad are happier and feel more in control of our lives. The book teaches PROVEN research how to get the behaviors we need and want in our kids. It works. If only the court systems, social services, lawyers, and judges would read it and recommend it!

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Wish I'd had this book when I was teaching school!

This book would be excellent for teachers as well as parents who want to help children develop the habit of good behavior. The method spells out how exactly to institute a positive-reinforcement rewards program to turn around a child's behavior. Kazdin gives specific scenarios, graphics to show how to make a chart, and even gives you a kind of script of what to say (which is really great for those of us who are not naturals). He says the research shows that it really only takes a few weeks of intensive work to create a good behavior habit.

parts of his method (like a rewards chart) will sound familiar to anyone who's worked with kids, but he says the key is in following the method to the tee. It's based on years of behavioral research. How can you knock it?

I really wish he'd published this book a few years ago when I was teaching very badly behaved and underprivileged kids in a bad neighborhood. I think it could make a big difference in such schools if teachers had this tool.

(Hey, Dr. Kazdin! How about giving your book to all teachers in schools that are failing the No Child Left Behind standards? It'd be a godsend.)

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Finally!

My first child is an "easy" child, but my second child MORE than makes up for it. I have struggled for years to try to "tame" her somehow. I've read dozens of parenting books and even tried the "supernanny" methods, and NOTHING has worked on my child. Timeouts, losing priveleges, even taking everything out of her room, yelling, spanking, you name it we've tried it, nothing has had any effect on her behavior at all. I am so relieved to finally find a parenting book that explains why none of those methods, and why punishment in general do not work to change behavior (except temporarily). This book explains what does work, and he lays it all out in excruciating detail so you basically can't go wrong. When I got this book in the mail, I sat down and read it in one evening - it is a very easy read and has lots of good example stories. I had to go back to some sections when I actually began to implement the method to look up certain details, but the book is very well organized so it was easy to find what I was looking for. The main thing about his method is positive reinforcement - yes everybody knows that - but this book explains how to do positive reinforcement correctly so that it actually works! I wish I had read this book years ago because it has made me and my family so much happier. I highly, highly recommend this book.

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