Help--My Kid is Driving Me Crazy
The 17 Ways Kids Manipulate Their Parents, and What You Can Do About It
Published on 1. September 2009
240 pages
978-1-101-13368-2 (ISBN)
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A family psychologist offers parents clear and simple techniques for disarming the strategies kids use to manipulate them.
Every parent knows that children quickly learn how to push their buttons. Now, this invaluable and insightful book, written by a prominent clinical psychologist, identifies the specific ways kids manipulate their parents?and how to stop each tactic. These uncannily sophisticated and undermining strategies include:
? Emotional blackmail
? Shutting down
? Negotiation
? Protest
? Playing the victim
? Dividing the parents
Filled with informative and practical advice, this insightful guide is designed to help parents restore harmony, discipline, and healthy relationships?and put an end to selfish, manipulative behavior for good.
Every parent knows that children quickly learn how to push their buttons. Now, this invaluable and insightful book, written by a prominent clinical psychologist, identifies the specific ways kids manipulate their parents?and how to stop each tactic. These uncannily sophisticated and undermining strategies include:
? Emotional blackmail
? Shutting down
? Negotiation
? Protest
? Playing the victim
? Dividing the parents
Filled with informative and practical advice, this insightful guide is designed to help parents restore harmony, discipline, and healthy relationships?and put an end to selfish, manipulative behavior for good.
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Help - My Kid Is Driving Me Crazy
The 17 Ways Kids Manipulate Their Parents, and What You Can Do About It
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09/2009
Perigee Books,U.S.
€24.70
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David Swanson is a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in California. He treats children, teens, and families suffering from anxiety, depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other disorders, as well as oppositional and defiant behavior, social problems, and the parent-child relationship.
