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Title: Thank you, Burton White!
Review: My husband and I were both hesitant to start a family, as we've found so many of our experiences with small children to be so very unpleasant. We had also heard quite a few experienced parents express the belief that a parent really has a pretty limited ability to shape their child's behavior (you know, the just-you-wait-and-see comments). Well, we're still waiting. We've got an absolutely delightful, polite, even-tempered two year-old. Luck, maybe? We don't think so; like White, we've noticed a pretty clear-cut correlation between parental behavior and toddler behavior. Do we feel we've failed if our toddler occasionally acts out? No, we just work at parenting a little harder. This book may not have in-depth or novel solutions to all parenting problems, but it offers solid approaches to shaping behavior. It helped us to feel more confident as first-time parents and it eased the oftentimes emotionally painful task of doling out disclipine to a small child.
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