Kid Cooperation. How to Stop Yelling, Nagging and Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 2000

PANTLEY, Elizabeth. Kid Cooperation. How to Stop Yelling, Nagging and Pleading and Get Kids to Cooperate. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 1996. 2O8pp. $13.95 (p).

Would you like to know how to get your children to willingly cooperate? Would you like to eliminate many of your daily battles and end the yelling, nagging, and pleading? Would you like to handle discipline issues with knowledge and authority? During this process, would you like to learn how to boost your children's self-esteem, feel better about yourself as a person, and even improve your marriage? In Kid Cooperation, Pantley offers workable tools for remaining calm and in control while raising happy, self-disciplined children. Based on years of research, this empowering book hones practical, sound, and easy-to-use strategies to help you to teach your kids to cooperate, avoid punishment and handle discipline with knowledge and authority, build your children's self-esteem, nurture sibling relationships, and take care of yourself and your other relationships. The book was written with the busy parent in mind. Dotted with at-a-glance chapter synopses and an enlightening "parent style" quiz, it also outlines com mon mistakes and how to avoid them.