This book is full of realistic, practical advice about parenting. The scenarios are wide ranging and the concepts are reinforced chapter by chapter. Helpful approach for parents of all ages.

This may just be my favorite Ross Greene book! Not only does he give parents the much needed perspective we need on a daily basis to choose wisely how we encourage, motivate, and raise kids we want to live with. He stops and explains how to think about meeting your child's needs, he has LOTS of practical examples and tips on collaboratively working together to develop skills like empathy.. honesty, cooperation, seeing other people's perspective, ... He really is thinking about the world we live in and the important life skills we need to be well suited for life. And he builds on my favorite mantra he has given me: "Kids do well if they can, and that doing well is preferable." Kids who aren't doing well lack skills. and as parents we have the best opportunity to build those skills.

This book is approachable and easy to read, his stories and narratives help any parent grasp that all children need to be heard, loved, and assisted in gaining new skills rather than corrected and chastised for their behaviors. Each chapter has a plan or perspective, narratives that model that plan, and then a review and Q & A to help deeper understanding (and review some hang ups we might have as we hear new ways of thinking).

It's really about how we as adults process and share our expectations with those around us, and help encourage the skills to function together. I used some strategies and thoughts from this book, and explained that I had read about this way of thinking to my 8 year old, and he said- Mom keep reading that book it helped us!

For me a control seeking individual this quote really resonated, "Perhaps most important, I learned that showing that I cared wasn't necessarily best expressed by taking control or overdoing it on an intervention." Then he gave tell tale signs that your anxiety is over the top like: "if you find yourself overcorrecting, overdirecting, overcoaching, and overcritizing so that things will turn out just so"

It's a wonderful resource, that share examples from different developmental stages (infant, toddler, kindergartener, ... to college and beyond). It will help you step aside and gain the perspective and strategies you need to parent with a growth mindset and to build skills in your children's lives.

I received an advanced copy of this book and consider it a blessing to read it before I could buy it. It's helped me this summer be a better parent. All ideas are my own.

As a new parent, I tried to get into this book but it just wasn’t for me unfortunately.

This is a very usable book that will assist many parenting styles. It has tons of good ideas and examples. It will be most useful for parents of younger children, and could even be of assistance to teachers of younger students.

I appreciated the pragmatic, yet empathic, considerations found on these pages. Parenting is no small feat, and sometimes even bonding with your newborn or child can feel challenging. This book acknowledged the tireless work parents do, which ultimately makes it a functional read!