Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
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Author: Mary Sheedy KurcinkaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-03-01
ISBN: 0060930438
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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- ISBN13: 9780060930431
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
Book Review: every parent needs to read this
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an amazing book! It explains why our kids do and act the way they do and how our response as parents helps or hinders this. A must read!
Summary of Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime
End Those Power Struggles and Begin Connecting with Your ChildNoted family educator Mary Sheedy Kurcinka struck a national chord with her bestselling Raising Your Spirited Child. Now she hits upon another crucial parenting topic: coping with the everyday challenges of disciplining your child, while understanding the issues behind his or her behavior. In Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles, she offers unique approaches to solving the daily, and often draining, power struggles between you and your child. Kurcinka views these conflicts as rich opportunities to teach your child essential life skills, like how to deal with strong emotions and problem solve. With her successful strategies, you'll be able to identify the trigger situations that set off these struggles and get to the root of the emotions and needs of you and your child.
Kids, parents, and power struggles--the inseparable triad of family life. What if you could avoid Machiavellian peacekeeping maneuverings and instead turn difficult situations with your child into jumping-off points to having a better and more productive relationship? Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's new book gives a concise, practical, and often humorous account of how to achieve this turnaround. Kurcinka doesn't promise miracle cures or overnight success, but by building on Daniel Goleman's groundbreaking work in Emotional Intelligence, she offers creative techniques for using power struggles as pathways to better understanding within any family. Drawing on her clinical experience with numerous real-life families, Kurcinka builds up an image of the parent as an "emotion coach," whose role is to build a strong, connected "team" by understanding the players' strengths and weaknesses and showing by instruction and example how best to play the game. The techniques she outlines are useful for children of any age--in fact, the younger, the better--and are based on firm guidelines and mutual respect. In sections such as "Bringing Down the Intensity," "Enforcing Your Standards," and "Teaching Life's Essential Skills," Kurcinka addresses the causes of power struggles rather than just the symptoms, so that families can reduce the pain of repeated conflict. By the end of the book, any parent should feel confident in applying the principles. --Katherine Ferguson
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