Product Description

In this text, Jon Gray provides a guide for parenting, addressing the bond between parents and children. Geared to parents of children from birth to teens, it shows parents how to help their children become strong, confident, morally responsible adults by focusing on self-esteem and responsibility.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99597 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

Raising confident children without raising your voice!!!
You may have read Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, like me but still wondered if John Gray was going to have anything really enlightening to say about raising children. Don't concern yourself about that as he has plently to say and, in my opinion all of it really eye opening.

I have read lots of books on raising children trying to find ways to make my life easier and searching for ways where we can all live happily together. This book really does give you so much useful information. I found the chapter on the different tempraments of children particularly fascinating and just understand my five year old so much better now...it is just amazing the difference when I communicate with him.

After reading this book and putting the recommendations into practice I would honestly say I am so much happier as a mother and can see the change in the kids...do not hesitate to buy this book it is worth every penny.

Discipline without raising your voice!
Feeling rather frazzled with a "terrible two" year old, I was wondering whether people were right who told me that the "short sharp shock" treatment of smacking children was the only way to "make them do". Although I tried it in bad situations, and it stopped the behaviour, it always felt so fundamentally wrong. Now I'm delighted and relieved to find that there is another way, and it seems such common sense when you read the book. You'll be amazed at the response you get...although there was never any deficit of love between my daughter and I, we are now much more relaxed together and happier too. I've only been doing it for a week...I wish I'd read this a year ago. It's fantastic and every parent should read it. My only challenge now is converting my husband...

If you have children, buy it!
The first time I tried the techniques described in this book, I got instant results, but thought it was a fluke. The second time, I suspected Gray might have hit on something. After four weeks, my boy magically cooperates and I've only yelled at him once. If you've got a child, buy the book. If you've got adults to influence (it works on grown ups too!), buy the book.