Great advice, clearly given

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	• Nanny 911: Expert Advice for All Your Parenting Emergencies Deborah Carroll, Stella Reid HarperEntertainment, 2005 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great advice, clearly given

Love this book. Maybe it's because I've seen the show and seen how effective their approach is, but somehow this book did a far better job of communicating ideas that I've seen in a dozen other books I'd read. Implementing the ideas is easy, and it's impact almost as dramatic as seen on the show. Tantrums way down, clean rooms, more respectful behavior. My kids and I are MUCH happier.

NANNY 911

Excellent book.
I recomend this book to all the parents who care about parenting.
It works 100%!!!I tried most of the advices and results were really fast and fascinating (I stoped yelling, we set our house rules, ...) . But you must work together (Mom and Dad) and be consistent!Nanny 911: Expert Advice for All Your Parenting Emergencies

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Excellent book

This book arrived in no more than two weeks, in excelent conditions. This book is full of great advices for everyone who is a parent or someone related to kids (teacher, babysitter...).

Nanny 911

I wish nanny 911 had been around while I was raising my children. It's just wonderful being able to turn a very difficult job, caring for children into a more peaceful and respectful relationship. To be able to turn a frantic situation around is quite an art. This book helps me to turn around problems that arise in my daycare. Also helps to take the frustration and replace it with confidence in meeting the situation head on.

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Some good advice here

I've never seen this show, so I am certain that is why I was able to glean some pertinent information from this book. If you do watch the show a lot, you probably will not learn much of anything new here.

The most important topic in this book is respect. Learning how to talk to your children and acknowledging their feelings will go a long way towards diffusing arguments and tantrums. However, this book just skims the surface of this topic. For example, they will give you some ways to start the conversation but no suggestions on how to keep the ball rolling through common child statements geared towards stopping the communication. They will point out parents being disrespectful but not give a suggestion on what the parent should have said instead.

Another good aspect of this book is it teaches you how to not just say "no" to your children all the time. Instead, being more creative is shown to be better. Instead of "No, you can't have any milk," a better way is, "You may have milk with dinner." This really works. I've tried it with my child, and been amazed when he just says, "Okay," and walks away.

Obviously the House Rules and consistency are important, the book spends a lot of time stressing that. However, I would have liked to have seen a list of common house rules that people enlist, to get an idea of what all needs to be covered. And the book does not address what to do when your child comes up with something new which would be against the rules and currently is not, and just special situations in general that will come up.

My primary problem with the book, however, is that it does not really address what to do when children argue with you. The book just suggests that children will follow the rules once they are consistent, because they do so at school (mmm.. not always!).

My child asked me this morning if he could take a toy in the car on the way to school, and I didn't want him to. I told him he could play with it after school, instead of saying no. This wasn't good enough for him and he continually questioned my decision, and even argued with me as to why it should be okay to take this toy in the car. This book will not really address what parents of strong-willed children should do in instances such as these, and it doesn't address how to handle the "but why, why, why." I finally had to tell him that I was sorry he disagreed with my decision but that it was going to stick. Definitely be consistent, anyway.

All in all, a good, helpful read.

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