Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition

A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic

By: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.

Do you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a loss regarding your child’s emotional intelligence and how to prevent meltdowns? Do you find yourself getting frustrated and feeling like you’re at the end of your rope?

You are not alone! Many parents are dealing with the same challenges.

In Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition, parenting expert Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D, offers ALL parents a glimpse into what makes their children behave the way they do. Through vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint, this invaluable guide offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling the toughest times. Dr. Kurcinka has devised a plan for success with a simple, four-step program that will help you discover the power of positive—rather than negative—labels, understand your child's and your own temperamental traits, cope with tantrums and blowups when they do occur, develop strategies for handling mealtimes, bedtimes, holidays, school, and many other situations.

In this third revised edition, you will find:

• More practical strategies to help you manage your own intensity (keep your cool)
• Effective discipline tips—including how to win cooperation and establish clear expectations and limits
• New strategies for managing the meltdowns—including how to prevent them in the future
• Revised tips for helping your spirited child fall asleep and stay asleep
• Revised tips for finding the school that “fits” your child
• Ideas for working with your child when he or she does not want to talk about emotions
• Steps to teaching your child how to be “problem solvers,” work well with others, and be more flexible
• … and more!

Including charts and quick tips for today’s time-challenged parents, this newly updated edition of Raising Your Spirited Child will help you foster a supportive, encouraging, and loving environment for your children.

Helpful info, not the best narrator

I’m not going to bash this woman’s voice the way other reviewers have, but I will say that I found it hard to listen to after awhile. The voice shifts she makes for men and children became sort of grating or jarring after awhile, and it doesn’t help that some of the way it’s written at times — the dialogue — honestly doesn’t seem very realistic either. We’ve gleaned some very helpful info from the book but I wish the dialogue and narrator had been a bit different.

Very helpful

Great read, very applicable to me and my child. I would recommend. Very helpful for my situation.

Worth the read but somewhat boring.

Worth the read but somewhat boring. The 1st 2 hours drag but you start to see where you can implement advice with your kiddos from there.

Narration needs work

This book has been amazing for our family- it has had an impact on my spirited kiddo and our parenting. However, the narrator is awful. Her voices for the different characters are grating and she can sometimes sound seductive, which is totally the wrong tone for this book. It took a lot of work to get through this audiobook without distraction.

Helpful book for parents and care providers

This book has been incredibly helpful for me as the parent of a spirited child. I think daycare providers and teachers will also benefit greatly from the information and tools presented in this book. Anyone responsible in anyway for the success of children will be immensely more successful in their endeavor as a result of reading this book. Many children, parents, educators and care providers will directly benefit from more adults reading, digesting, and integrating this information into their daily interactions with others.