Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition

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

De: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Narrado por: 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.

Good

Maybe just me, but I could not stand the voices used for children. It became like nails on a chalkboard. I wish she could have just read it in her own voice. The book itself was helpful, but sometimes seems like a little too over the top. Looking forward to reading others and putting it all together.

Word-for-word description of my daughter

This book was an answer to prayer. it covers EVERYTHING! I am going to be reading and reading this book to implement all the principles taught.

Insightful read!

very useful insight!! grateful for its recommendation from a child psychologist, I will be re reading.

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.