How to Unspoil Your Child Fast

By Richard Bromfield

Book Overview

A practical parenting book with quick-to-implement advice to build "unspoiling" attitudes and behaviors in your kids and raise a contented, happy, and fulfilled child through positive discipline.Are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097978851X
• ISBN13: 9780979788512
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Basil Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Short, sweet and to the point for those of us who don't have time to waste!

As a mother of 3 I am constantly reading books on parenting and this one is one of the best, if not the best, I've ever read. If you have ever been in therapy and just wanted the therapist to hurry up and tell you what you need to do this is the book for you. I have read it twice so far and have seen wonderful changes in my children and myself. So many in my generation seem to be clueless about child training (myself included) and this is just what we needed.

Very Helpful Parenting Book

I have worried about "spoiling" my children by giving them too much, doing too much, wanting somehow to help them avoid the painful moments of childhood and adolescence. My intentions are to parent well, but I sometimes forget that oftentimes that means needing to step back and allow my children to work hard, experience pain, toil, and reap the rewards of those experiences. In "How to Unspoil Your Child Fast," Dr. Bromfield illustrates the many ways to do just that. I found this book extremely helpful and upon reading it, I began to examine and tweak specific ways I parent. Dr. Bromfield writes as an expert child/family psychologist, but also as a parent himself. It is clear from this book that he has thought hard, researched, and written from his own experiences. Although my daughters like being doted on, they think I parent better--more consistently, fairly, evenhandedly--when I utilize many of Dr. Bromfield's suggestions. I highly recommend this book.

Spoiled again!

In simple prose, Dr. Bromfield helps unravel the complicated processes by which parents become ineffective with their children. He is very direct in pinpointing what is at stake while also helping parents understand how to reverse the pernicious effects of "spoiling." He outlines the "unspoiling" process in straightforward concepts, without minimizing the complexities but offering advice to help parents feel more competent and hopeful. I am a child therapist who has spent many years dealing with problems of "spoiled" children. I believe frustrated parents will find help and support in Dr. Bromfield's sage advice.