Parenting the Strong-Willed Child, Expanded Fourth Edition: The Clinically Proven Five-Week Program for Parents of Two- to Six-Year-Olds

The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child's behavior-fully updated and revisedIn 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child s self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully build upon their child s strengths while effectively managing challenging behavior. Packed with brand-new content, this fourth edition has been thoroughly updated to integrate state-of-the-field scientific and clinical advances, providing a timely and thorough response to the current issues facing parents of young children. It addresses important new topics, including:Understanding parenting and child behavior in context, including effects of the global pandemic, racial disparities, financial strain, and other parenting challengesGreater opportunities for parents to learn proven parenting skills for challenging child behaviors such as noncompliance, whining, and tantrumsHelp for parents to apply new skills to the specific problem behaviors they are facingStrategies for linking the five-week program skills to common parenting challenges, including screen timeUnderstanding how the proven five-week program can help parents of children with ADHD given advances in science and clinical practice in this areaThe importance of parent self-care as they learn the programImprove the life of your child and yourself with valuable lessons and science-backed advice that has helped a generation of parents raise happy, healthy children.