Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child

The third book in the Setting Limits series helps parents teach their rules and gain cooperation from challenging, hard-to-train children who engage us in more testing and power struggles.

Strong-willed children are difficult to raise, difficult to train, and are at greater risk for emotional and behavioral adjustment problems. They seem more determined to train parents than parents are to train them. Most don't respond to discipline methods that work with more compliant children. In schools, strong-willed children are the 5-10% that cause 90% of the school's discipline problems. Principals refer to them as "frequent flyers." Parents refer to them as spirited, difficult, challenging, stubborn, or hell-raisers who have the potential to become CEO's or mafia leaders. Whatever we call them, strong-willed children are the "movers and shakers" in our world, and, when it comes to guidance and discipline, parents and teachers have no margin for ineffectiveness. They have to be at the top of their game or they will pay a heavy price in testing, power struggles, and resistance.

Now, the good news. Strong-willed children have the potential to be as cooperative, dynamic, responsible, and productive as any other child, but they require a lot of clear, firm guidance to keep them on the path of acceptable behavior. Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child shows parents how to achieve this goal.

What People say about Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child.

"Dr. Mackenzie's book, Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child, is a great resource for parents looking for help to learn how they can understand and effectively discipline their children, especially if they are strong-willed or can be described as challenging, difficult, spirited, stubborn, hell-raising, a pistol or just plain impossible."
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"Eminently useful and readable! This book should be a part of every parent's and school's reference library."
Judy Hunt Brown, Elementary School Principal

"A grand book that teaches everybody in the family new skills and encourages more peaceful, socially acceptable lives at home, school, in the office, or in any social group."
Barbara O'Donnell, Elementary School Principal