Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation

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You love your children, but if you're like most parents, you don't always love their behavior. But how can you guide them without resorting to less-than-optimal behavior yourself? Dr. Becky Bailey's unusual and powerful approach to parenting has made thousands of families happier and healthier.

Focusing on self-control and confidence-building for both parent and child, Dr. Bailey teaches a series of linked skills to help families move from turmoil to tranquillity:

• 7 Powers for Self-Control to help parents model the behavior they want their kids to follow. These lead to:
• 7 Basic Discipline Skills to help children manage sticky situations at home and at school, which will help your children develop:
• 7 Values for Living, such as integrity, respect, compassion, responsibility, and more.

Dr. Bailey integrates these principles in a seven-week program that gets families off to a good start, offering plenty of real-life anecdotes that illustrate her methods at work. With this inspiring and practical book in hand, you'll find new ways of understanding and improving children's behavior, as well as your own.

I am the mom of three, and a child and family therapist, and I love her approach and advice. Great book, and her video's are great as well, and great teaching tools for those of us trying to be better parents,or help others to be. Not a simple fix, but more of a philosophy, or foundation for parenting.

I have recommended this book to parents and non-parents alike. I have become a better and more patient person because of this book. The advice that Dr. Bailey gives is wonderful for parents but it is also relevant and applicable to all relationships.

I checked this book out several times from our local library but decided to buy a copy for myself when the renewal limit had expired (twice). I've recommended it widely and even purchased it for friends. I consider it my parenting Bible.

I use Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline system in my classroom and it is amazing the differences it can make. I love it. But I got this book to help parents see it from the 'home' view as well. she does an excellent job going through this process step by step and giving many different solutions to common discipline problems.

And some of the author's suggestions will work immediately. We got this book a few weeks ago on the advice of a friend who is an early childhood education specialist, and we have been following the suggestions given by the author. My husband and I have seen positive changes in ourselves, our relationship with each other, and our relationship with our daughter. I highly recommend this book. It takes patience, but the techniques really work over the longer term (it took us about a week to begin to feel that our daughter was less resistant to us, and that we were all working together).