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Children: The Challenge : The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations--Intelligent, Humane & Eminently Practical (Plume) |  | Authors: Rudolf Dreikurs, Vicki Soltz
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
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Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 8012
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0452266556
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
EAN: 9780452266551
ASIN: 0452266556
Publication Date: December 26, 1991
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Children:The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This warm and reassuring reference helps parents to understand their children's actions better, giving them the guidance necessary to discipline lovingly and effectively.
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The Most Helpful Parenting Book I've Read Yet December 4, 1999
47 out of 49 found this review helpful
I've gone through so many parenting books and magazines - and this book is reaaly the first helpful book I've come across. I found results in my home in days - more cooperative children, a lot less fighting, and a calmer, happier mother. The author demonstrates clearly how to maintain disciipline and order while also respecting children and their free agency. When I first found the book I called my mother, "I finally found a book that IS my philosophy of child rearing!" Ironically, it is an old edition of the same book that my mother read over and over when I was growing up.
Possibly the best childrearing book out there July 30, 2004
Alice Fielding (Norman, OK USA)
54 out of 58 found this review helpful
My in-laws raised my husband on this book, and he is quite a wonderful person. We intend to raise our children this way, too.
The book IS outdated, and I don't agree with 100% of it.
For example, research done since the book was written has shown that quick, consistent, loving response to a baby's cries builds trust and communication between the baby and its parents. So I would disregard the advice to leave a baby to cry.
Dreikurs is opposed to spanking, but it's because he doesn't think it works very well, not because he thinks it's inherently harmful or dangerous. So his advice to let other significant adults in your child's life use corporal punishment if they want to is off, I think.
Other parts of the book are outdated as well, but not in ways that would matter as far as changing parenting techniques. Well, you shouldn't leave your kids alone in a car, obviously, but other than that....
Why am I still giving his book five stars even with all of the above reservations? Because even WITH all of my reservations, I still think this is the best childrearing book I have ever read--and I've read a lot of them. It clearly outlines a parenting style that is neither authoritarian nor permissive, and contributes to loving relationships where people take responsibility for their actions. I can't recommend it more highly. If you have children or if you interact with them at all, do yourself a favor and read this book!
Raise your kids on this book. August 12, 2000
Vickie Smith (Mechanicsburg, PA)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
My son was about 2 1/2 years old when I found "Children the Challenge" in a box of books I bought at auction. I started reading it and realized it put into words things I felt but couldn't articulate. All the things I said I wouldn't do to my children ( and found myself doing because my parents did ) I was able to change almost overnight! I guided 3 preteen step-children from wild uncontrolled children to at least respecting ( becaused they were respected ) and more coopertive members of our family. My son was raised on this book -- succesfully. Today, he is 15 years old, we are very close, he is very loving, and 97% of the time way talk our way through our problems. My mother, though all of this said most of what I was doing wouldn't work, but every 6-12 months she says how pride she is of him and what a good job I'm doing ( we've see her weekly all his life ). I've been a single mother for the last 8 years and I've kept his father very involved in his life ( don't fight-using the kids. READ THE BOOK ! ) This book really is the best. Two years ago my father checked Amazon.com for the book ( I couldn't find copies of it anywhere else, ( lost my original book when I loaned it to a co-worker)), and I ordered two copies, one for me and a friend. I'm going to order more for gifts ! I thank God I found it again. Questions ? E-mail me Chewbacca-wooky@juno.com
Children: The Challenge August 27, 2000
Sandra Williams (West Sacramento, CA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book was presented to me back in the 70's. Today I pass it on to two of my daughters, age 33 and age 35, who are using this new addition to help them with their children. This helped us through the 70's and my children still talk about the methods we used in those days that were recommended by Dr. Alfred Dreikurs. I think this book is oustanding and actually phenonmenal. Most of all it is SIMPLE. I recommend it to anyone trying to raise children without understanding or guidance and feel lost. It is so simple, it cuts out all the screaming, fighting, whinning, begging and manipulations little ones are so good at and saves Mommy from frustration and insanity. Daddies can use it too.
A timeless classic. May 26, 1999
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Worth the time to read. Helps you have a good foundation of knowledge for raising children. Remember though, this book is REAL old so many of the examples and ideas are outdated. Combine it with a good current book such as Kid Cooperation (How to Stop Yelling, Nagging and Pleading) by Elizabeth Pantley or Positive Parenting by Jane Nelsen.
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