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Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
EAN num: 9780767927437
ISBN number: 0767927435
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
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Page Count: 240
Printing Date: August 19, 2008
Publishing house: Broadway
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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You Can Start a Revolution in Your Family . . . Tonight
ScreamFree Parenting is not just about lowering your voice. It’s about learning to calm your emotional reactions and learning to focus on your own behavior more than your kids’ behavior . . . for their benefit. Our biggest enemy as parents is not the TV, the Internet, or even drugs. Our biggest enemy is our own emotional reactivity. When we say we “lost it” with our kids, the “it” in that sentence is our own adulthood. And then we wonder why our kids have so little respect for us, why our kids seem to have all the power in the family.
It’s time to do it differently. And you can. You can start to create and enjoy the types of calm, mutually respectful, and loving relationships with your kids that you’ve always craved. You can begin to revolutionize your family, starting tonight.
Parenting is not about kids, it’s about parents.
If you’re not in control, then you cannot be in charge.
What every kid really needs are parents who are able to keep their cool no matter what.
Easier said than done? Not anymore, thanks to ScreamFree Parenting, the principle-based approach that’s inspiring parents everywhere to truly revolutionize their family dynamics. Moving beyond the child-centered, technique-based approaches that ultimately fail, the ScreamFree way compels you to:
focus on yourself
calm yourself down, and
grow yourself up
By staying calm and connected with your kids, you begin to operate less out of your deepest fears and more out of your highest principles, revolutionizing your relationships in the process.
ScreamFree Parenting is not just another parenting book. It’s the first parenting
book that maintains—from beginning to end—that parenting is NOT about kids . . . it’s about parents. As parents pay more attention to controlling their own behavior instead of their kids’ behavior, the result is stronger, more rewarding, and more fulfilling family relationships.
For those of you reading who are parents, know parents, or have had parents, the notion that the greatest thing you can do for your children is to learn to focus on yourself may sound strange, even heretical. It’s not. Here’s why: we are the only ones we can control. We cannot control our kids—we cannot control the behavior of any other human being. And yet, so many “experts” keep giving us more tools (“techniques”) to help us try to do just that. And, of course, the more we try to control, the more out of control our children become.
“Don’t make me come up there.” “Don’t make me pull this car over.” “How many times do I have to tell you?” Even our language suggests that our kids have control over us.
It’s no wonder that we end up screaming. Or shutting down. Or simply giving up. And the charts, refrigerator magnets, family meetings, and other techniques in most typical parenting books just don’t work. They end up making us feel more frustrated and more powerless in this whole parenting thing.
This practical, effective guide for parents of all ages with kids of all ages introduces proven principles for overcoming the anxieties and stresses of parenting and setting new patterns of connection and cooperation. Well-written in an engaging, conversational tone, the book is sensible, straightforward, and based on the experiences of hundreds of actual families. It will help all parents become calming authorities in their homes, bring peace to their families today, and give kids what they need to grow into caring, self-directed adults tomorrow.
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Hal E. Runkel offers amazing insight into the dynamics of parent-child interactions in his book/CD series, Screamfree Parenting. Not so much a how-to author, Runkel instead helps the parent identify systems of their own thought/behavior which have an impact on their children's development. He aids the parent in adjusting their responses to their children in order to encourage positive and benificial growth in their child. I've put his theory into practice with my own children with immediate and profound results. I highly recommend this book/CD series to any parent who is willing to look inside themselves to find causes and solutions for the myriad behavioral delimmas we all encounter when raising our kids!
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I've never seen a self improvement book that does less to guide you to overcome your problem. The author must have ADD. He seemed to lose sight he was writing a book instead of just rambling for his own entertainment. He might be fine therapist in person but, his book just bounces around and doesn't seem to give any kind tips, or suggestion to help. It just make you feel bad for when you've lost you temper and have screamed.
I feel like this author has screwed me over. He got my money and my time with a book that could be summed up in about 1 page of very to the point suggestion.
Don't waste your money.
I'll sum it up- Don't yell at your kids, give them personal space, try and let them made decision on there own and don't label them.
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I bought this book to help my sister handle her stress when dealing with her 3 year old daughter, and it worked, she stop screaming and even my nice has improved her bad temper.
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I very first saw this author on the Today show. I liked his advice and bought his book. It was very helpful for our family. We have a 15 year old, a 7 year old, and a 2 year old. I think this book's advice helps in other relationships as well, work, family, friends... Read it - not just for short tempered people. Also great for the parent who gives in too much or the people pleaser... Very helpful advice.
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Runkel brings common sense back to the parenting scene by reminding parents that they are parents and that they are in charge. Their job is not to be lifelong caregivers or lifelong friends, but just parents. It brought to minds something Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) said over half a century ago: "The responsibility of parents is to raise children who don't need parents." In this age of helicopter parents, Runkel's book helps bring parenting back to earth with its well grounded information and advice.
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