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Title: Is This Book For Real??
Review: This book is not a philosophy or guide to a partiular discipline strategy, but a limited collection of very odd and gimicky techniques that are supposed to magically cure behaviors in children and teens. For example, the author suggests choosing an undesirable behavior (in his example, forgetting to turn off the lights when leaving a room) and then spending extended amounts of time practicing the *undesirable* behavior (more not less, he calls it) each time the child does it. This will supposedly cause the child to think about this unpleasant training the next time he turns on a light switch. Then there is the technique of placing tally marks on a child's arm with a ballpoint pen each time she performs an undesirable behavior and then requiring her to say a nursery rhyme (Hickory Dickory Dock was the example in the book) up to 20 times for each mark on her arm. These stratgeies are supposed to teach a child to willingly submit to parental authority. Seriously??
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