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"I Never Get Anything!": How to Keep Your Kids from Running Your Life

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Author: Thomas W. Phelan
Publisher: Parentmagic, Inc.
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 197
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.3 x 0.5

ISBN: 1889140139
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
EAN: 9781889140131
ASIN: 1889140139

Publication Date: November 1, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Jenny is no longer talking to anybody and has declined to eat dinner. Tommy is threatening to run away from home. Melissa is yelling out her bedroom window "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!!" Bobby is spray painting the screwdriver display in the local hardware store. What are these kids doing? They are frustrated, and they are attempting to use several of the Six Kinds of Testing and Manipulation to get their way from their parents.PIt is no news flash that, from the time they are toddlers, children will frequently try to "press their parents' buttons" in order to get their way. Surprisingly, however, many Moms and Dads act as if this phenomenon were a news flash. Some parents think kids should always want to cooperate-after all, it's for the youngster's own good!PThe bad news is that our little ones will try to test their parents. The good news is that in "I Never Get Anything!!" clinical psychologist Dr. Thomas W. Phelan identifies the six kinds of emotional blackmail used by youngsters to get their way. These tactics include Badgering, Temper, Threats, Martyrdom, Butter Up and Physical Tactics. PHow parents think about and manage these testing strategies is a universal and critically important problem. Parental responses to children's emotional blackmail have a tremendous effect not only on the parent-child relationship, but also on a parent's own mental health and marriage. Management of testing also strongly impacts the future welfare of a child. As Dr. Phelan points out, kids who don't learn the discipline of frustration tolerance early in life are going to be in trouble later in life.PParents cannot wish their kids into a State of Perpetual Cooperation and Gracious Acceptance of All Disappointment. "I Never Get Anything!!" is a humorous, practical and down-to-earth guide that tells Mom and Dad what to expect from their frustrated children and exactly how to handle it-gently and firmly.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Awesome Book/A must have June 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I am the parent of an adopted ADHD/Explosive child....this works wonders for him...and us!! It is so basic that any parent can use it very effectively!!I have recommended it to soooo many other adoptive/foster and other parents!!br /I recommend this book as one that is a must on anyone's shelf.

4 out of 5 stars

Book has great ideas on parenting difficult children December 7, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I read 1 2 3 magic. I enjoyed that book and the ideas the author had. I was anxious to read another book from this author. This book had alternatives to counting. I found this book helpful.

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