Parenting the Strong-Willed Child : The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-olds

The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child's behavior fully updated and revisedIn 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child's self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully build upon their child's strengths while effectively managing challenging behavior. Packed with brand-new content, this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to integrate state-of-the-field scientific and clinical advances, providing a timely and thorough response to the current issues facing parents of young children. It addresses important new topics, including:Understanding parenting and child behavior in context, including effects of the global pandemic, racial disparities, financial strain, and other parenting challenges,Greater opportunities for parents to learn proven parenting skills for challenging child behaviors such as noncompliance, whining, and tantrums,Help for parents to apply new skills to the specific problem behaviors they are facing,Strategies for linking the five-week program skills to common parenting challenges, including screen time,Understanding how the proven five-week program can help parents of children with ADHD given advances in science and clinical practice in this area,The importance of parent self-care as they learn the program,Improve the life of your child and yourself with valuable lessons and science-backed advice that has helped a generation of parents raise happy, healthy children.