Battles, Hassles, Tantrums and Tears Book

Bedtime. Chores. Homework. Sibling bickering. When these and other hassles with your children bring you to the boiling point, use this strategy-packed book to handle conflicts creatively, according to your unique personality — not an expert's "method." Enlightening self assessments reveal your style for resolving conflict: Collaborating, Compromising Accommodating, Avoiding, or Directing. Later chapters show how to apply the authors innovative C H O I.C.E.S. system to handle old problems in new ways tailor-made to the needs of your family. Examples and practice sessions will give you ideas to try - and make you chuckle sometimes, too.

Chock-full of field-tested tactics.

Bringing more than 30 years of collective experience as parents and educators to this book, the authors relieve parental perfectionism with the assurance that there is no "perfect" way to handle problems with kids. Instead, they adapt the best conflict resolution techniques for easy use at home.