Title: Just take a pass
Review: I checked this book out of the library to figure out how to better manage my oldest son. I put it down pretty shortly after reading the part where the author claims that your child is not behaving obnoxiously on purpose but just can't help himself and doesn't understand what he's doing. ("These criteria [for oppositional defiance disorder which, frankly, I do think is a bit of a crock] imply that oppositional behavior is deliberate, and I don't think that's true in many cases.") Well, maybe not the cases he's seen but definitely it's on purpose in MY house ("Mommy, would you like to go up the wall today?" Sigh.) I put that one down and had VERY good results from10 Days to a Less Defiant Child: The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior. It's shorter too!
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