Parent Power! And The Six Point Plan Book

I like John Rosemond and I usually agree with his advice. I was interested in this book mainly as motivation. As a SAHM, I sometimes need a kick in the pants to begin to get creative about discipline. Some of the ideas in this book have really worked for me already with my 3 year old. The best advice for me right now in this book was to keep explanations to under 25 words, and that I had full permission to use "because I said so" as my explanation. This is actually working much better for me than my old way of letting my kiddo question me ad nauseum about why he had to take a bath, etc. Another brilliant nugget was that I now feel enabled to send him to his room when I just don't want to deal with the whining or tantrums. There are fewer tantrums now that I took away his audience!

As always, Rosemond seems a bit pompous and heavy-handed in his discipline methods, but I knew this when I picked up the book. The book reads well, with personal examples and letters with questions from other parents answered in every chapter. As with any discipline book, I weigh the advice, take what seems like it will fit into our lives, and take the rest with a grain of salt.