| Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool |  | Author: Hal Edward Runkel
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 3,540
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
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Product Description
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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 Amazing Insights September 1, 2010
Rita Alexandra (Lisbon, Lisbon Portugal)
This is a breath of fresh air in an overcrowded market of family/education books. Trully amazing.
Perfect August 25, 2010
E. Khromets (Bedford, NH USA)
Yes it is not a recipe book. It doesn't tell you what is the right thing to do in every case. If such a thing was possible parenting would be as easy as making french toast. It tells you how to FIND the best way to deal with the situation. The best way for you and your child in your particular situation. It offers you to grow, to be responsible for you own actions and to raise happier children. It says that you need to work on yourself, your reactions and expectations. It was very helpful for me. If you need a book of 100 tips look elsewhere. Good luck!
 Better Books Out There August 14, 2010
N. Hyde
This book recommends keeping your cool, but it doesn't give specific tips on how to control anger or how to discipline kids (other than using consequences/punishments). I strongly recommend reading Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles: Winning for a Lifetime by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka instead. Another good book is How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
Too much talking, Not enough action July 22, 2010
K. Stathis (NJ)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am in the process of listening to this book on CD. The first four chapters are so boring that I find my mind wandering off thinking of other things. By chapter 5 it gets a little better, but but not much. The 1 star reviews are right on in that there is no "HOW" in this book... just lots of blah, blah, blah. The author tells a long story about how he disciplined her daughter for walking on the outside of an indoor staircase in the living room. He took her down and calmly told her that was off limits. But did she ever do it again? Did she do it when her mother was home and her father was out? Then he explains that he found his two year old son at the stop of the steps on the outside of the railing, six feet above the living room floor. He calmly removed him. But that's it.... I'm waiting and wondering how he disciplined him. Did the 2 year old ever do it again.
 Great concepts, could use more examples July 20, 2010
eiderdog
For the introspective parent, this book has great concepts on fundamental behaviors of parents that will make parenting easier. For a parent trying to break a cycle of screaming and button-pushing, it may be challenging to implement without more specific examples of how to handle situations, and yourself, differently. It could be empowering enough to recognize that you can only change your behavior to make situations different. The basic tenets are right on. It is not a guide book for what to say in specific settings to get a different outcome, but it does help a parent think of how to do just that.
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