When Kids Call the Shots: How to Seize Control from Your Darling Bully - and Enjoy Being a Parent Again

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If you want to fix your rebellious and disrespectful child, you need to start by fixing yourself.

Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions that you have done all you can to fix your difficult children, the hard truth is, theyre not doing you any favors by placing the responsibility solely on your children. Parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile intersection of a child's personality with a parent's own insecurities and behaviors.

In When Kids Call the Shots, therapist and parenting expert Sean Grover untangles the forces driving family dysfunction, and helps parents assume their leadership roles once again. Parents will discover:

• Three common bullying styles used by kids
• Parenting styles that contribute to power balances
• Critical testing periods in a childs development
• Coping mechanisms that backfire
• Personalized plans for calmly exerting authority in any scenario

The solution to any problem begins with learning to control what you can control. In parenting, youve already learned how impossible it is to control your kids. Begin by controlling you!

Reviews

..".fabulous, stupendous, and all around terrific how-to book that helps parents control situations when a child is bullying them." --Grandma Ideas
..".it is nice to have a book like this one to help me learn how to parent better." --Beautiful Mommies
..".lot of good ideas, and common sense approaches to not only getting control of your kids, but most importantly helping you to see what caused the problem..." --Learning Curvy
..".offers readable bites of advice, case studies from his 20 years working with families and personal stories of his own trials as the father of two girls." --Associated Press
.."this is a book I will be reopening for a long time. The advice is easy and sound!" --Maria's Space
"Grover hit his groove in a savvy compilation of how NOT to let your kids get away with tantrums...MUST HAVE BOOK for parents, teachers, and this blogger!" --The Review Broads
"It helps that Grover readily admits mistakes he made in his own parenting, which lets us relate to his teachings--and makes him more believable, too." --Psychcentral.com
"It is as if this book was written just for me...I am learning coping mechanisms that I can use to deal with everyday scenarios and situations..." --All Beautiful Mommies
"Psychotherapist Grover pulls no punches in this parenting manual...[his] empowering, motivating approach is highly compassionate to suffering, burnt-out parents..." --Publishers Weekly
"The art of parenting will be enhanced with this interesting, insightful, and helpful read." -Bookloons

Author Bio

Sean Grover, LCSW, has worked in child development and adult psychotherapy for 20 years, and maintains one of the largest private group therapy practices in the U.S. He has been quoted in Newsweek, New York Magazine, NPR, and elsewhere about parent-child relationships.