Children Who Say No When You Want Them to Say Yes is an essential resource for parents seeking to understand where the stubborn child has emerged from and how to cope when opposition has become an everyday occurrence. Psychotherapist James Windell has created a practical guide that provides sensible advice on what to expect and how to cope with children's opposition at every age from infancy to the adolescent years. Stressing that some degree of opposition is to be expected as part of any normal child's healthy quest for increasing independence, James Windell distinguishes between age-appropriate stubbornness, the persistence that stems from inborn temperament, and the more extreme expression of defiance bred by an unfortunate combination of difficult temperament, stressful environment, and poor parenting skills. He advises parents how best to cope with both normal stubbornness and more extreme defiance at each age, laying out a total childhood program designed to help parent and child alike. Using his effective techniques, parents learn how to work with their children to end the battles-of-will that so often result in emotional damage for the child and self-recrimination for the parent.
- ISBN10 002861903X
- ISBN13 9780028619033
- Publish Date 23 September 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 6 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English