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Today show’s Michele Borba’s cures for difficult childhood behaviors In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children’s difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens.
- Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges
- Written by Today Show’s resident parenting expert Michele Borba
- Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts
- Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results
- Author has written outstanding parenting books including Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin’, Don’t Give Me that Attitude, and more
Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate.
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In this down-to-earth guide, parenting expert Michele Borba offers advice for dealing with children’s difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, temper tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, sex, drugs, peer pressure, and much more. Written for parents of kids age 3-13, this book offers easy-to-implement advice for the most important challenges parents face with kids from toddlers to tweens.
- Includes immediate solutions to the most common childhood problems and challenges
- Written by Today Show’s resident parenting expert Michele Borba
- Offers clear step-by-step guidance for solving difficult childhood behaviors and family conflicts
- Contains a wealth of advice that is easy-to-follow and gets quick results
- Author has written outstanding parenting books including Building Moral Intelligence, No More Misbehavin’, Don’t Give Me that Attitude, and more
Each of the 101 issues includes clear questions, specific step-by-step solutions, and advice that is age appropriate.
Top Ten Proven Parenting Solutions
Content from Dr. Michele Borba
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Here is just a sample of the hundreds of proven and simple tips from Dr. Borba’s latest book, The Big Book of Parenting Solutions. The best news is that these solutions work for all ages, take less than a minute to do, are based on proven research and when consistently used will reap lasting change.
1. Get attention: Lower your voice almost to a whisper and then say your request. Kids aren’t used to a quiet request.
2. Increase positive behavior: Research shows that giving kids the right kind of praise (called “positive reinforcement”) is one of the best ways to shape new behavior. So, catch your kid doing the action you want. Just make sure your praise is specific and tells your child exactly what he did right. (Adding “because” or “that” takes your praise up a notch. “I’m so impressed that you started your homework all by yourself this time.”)
3. Stretch persistence: Praising the child’s effort (“You’re working so hard”) and not inherent intelligence (”You’re so smart”) is proven to enhance perseverance and performance, but the child is also more likely to bounce back from a mistake—all because he feels success is not mixed.
4. Reduce fear: Expose your child to a fear in small manageable doses and help them develop a statement to speak back to the worry (“Go away worry!” or “I can do this!”)
5. Curb a tantrum: The longer you give attention to a tantrum the longer it lasts. Ignore, ignore, ignore!
6. Nurture kindness: Encourage your child to use the Two Praise Rule everyday. “Say or do at least two kind things to someone.” Random acts of kindness really are catchy!
7. Increase assertiveness: Stress: “Look at the color of the talker’s eyes.” Using eye contact helps kids appear confident. Strong body posture also helps a child be less likely to be bullied.
8. Friendship builder: The two most commonly used traits of well-liked kids are “smiling” and “encouraging.” Reinforce those traits in your child to boost his friendship quotient.
9. Develop healthy eating habits. Eating relaxed family meals regularly enhances kids’ psychosocial well- being, boosts grades and deters behaviors like smoking and drinking and eating disorders as well as teaches the child healthy eating habits.
10. Curb nagging. Say “no” the first time and don’t back down. The average kid nags nine times knowing the parent will give in.
The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries
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This book is exactly what the title implies – BIG BOOK OF PARENTING SOLUTIONS! Dr. Michele Borba not only gives us detailed and proven suggestions (solutions), she talks our language. Her research is outstanding and helps you to be a better parent. From toddlers to teens, she has the answers. Like her other books, she puts her heart into the book, and you can feel the power you are gaining – power in better understanding our kids.
Whether you are an educator, parent, coach, therapist, daycare provider or psychologist – you must take time to read this book! It is large, but you can easily find your areas of interest – which there are many! From your child’s behavior ( that lovely attitude) to sibling rivalry – I don’t think this book missed a beat. I highly recommend it to anyone working with kids today!
Rating: 5 / 5
I had never heard of Michele Borba — one good thing I do as a parent is to mostly have the TV off until
the children are in bed when I catch a few TIVO’d shows — my spouse watches a ton of sports, but in
a different room and on wknds mostly. This book is huge! its really comprehensive and is more like
an encyclopedic entry on the common problems — i.e. if you are really having
one of the issues described, this is a fantastic beginning to realize that a)you are not alone,
b)you can do something about it. She gives you a fantastic description and some things you can do, and
a list of resources at the end of the book to look for deeper answers. i.e. if you are looking to change how
you respond to sibling rivalry, an entire book that walks you thro different scenarios and coaches
you scene by scene on how to respond to a situation could work better than this book, but she gives you a great starting
point, and if you don’t have a deep problem, that may well be enough to solve your issues for the most part
to a livable degree. For e.g. I found that she had very concisely summed up the strategies for dealing with
rivalry that took Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too a whole book
to explain and not as succintly. The encyclopedia analogy is a positive one in this case because
as a busy parent this book has in one spot all the info that you probably have time to ingest. I really
loved her section on dealing with behavior issues. There are nine sections such as character, emotions, electronics,
family,(where I found the info on sibling rivalry) behavior etc.If you don’t own another parenting book, then this is the one to get.
Rating: 5 / 5
I think this is a wonderful book for parents that need a little help for our questions with our children!
Rating: 5 / 5
This big boog contains everything a new parent is going to need to know! It has everything from dealing with temper tantrums to picky eaters!
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Borba has given parents what we have been searching for…..the ultimate guide to every problem we face now and will face in the years ahead in the ongoing challenge of raising great kids. Dr. Borba’s book The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries (Child Development) provides research based, practical solutions that are simple to do and provide real and lasting change. Today’s world presents so many new and frightening challenges to parents, but Dr. Borba provides not only tested and proven solutions, but a warm, caring and passionate advocate. Reading her books is like having a trusted friend and highly knowledgeable parenting expert right by your side as you encounter new challenges with your kids. This book is presented in a user-friendly style that makes it easy to find what you need right now and start creating lasting change in your child. There is no need anymore to have a library of parenting books….this book truly covers it all and when Michele Borba writes it, you KNOW it works! Bravo Dr. Borba!
Rating: 5 / 5
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