Loving without Spoiling : And 100 Other Timeless Tips for Raising Terrific Kids - Hardcover

Samalin, Nancy; Whitney, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809295512 ISBN 13: 9780809295517

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2002

Synopsis

One of the nation's most influential parenting authorities shares her winning tips for raising great kids

Raising well-behaved, considerate children requires learning how to balance firm discipline with equal doses of love and humor. In Loving Without Spoiling, Nancy Samalin, M.S., internationally known parent educator and author of the bestselling Loving Your Child Is Not Enough, provides you with immediate answers to your childrearing challenges. She helps you develop the confidence and skills needed to raise a new generation of well-adjusted adults. Covering the most common parental concerns, Loving Without Spoiling provides loving and effective strategies for positive parenting.

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About the Author

Nancy Samalin, M.S., is the bestselling author of Loving Your Child Is Not Enough, Love and Anger: The Parental Dilemma, and Loving Each One Best. She is the founder and director of Parent Guidance Workshops in New York City. She has been conducting workshops for parents of toddlers through teens for over twenty-five years and gives keynote speeches throughout the United States and abroad. She appears regularly on many national TV shows, including the "Today" show, "Good Morning America," "20/20," "Dateline NBC," "CBS This Morning," and CNN. Her most recent award was the Bank Street College Recognition Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in the Field of Education. She and her husband live in New York City and are the parents of two grown sons.

Catherine Whitney is a professional writer who has collaborated on numerous award-winning and bestselling nonfiction books. She lives in South Nyack, New York.

From the Back Cover

"Nancy Samalin's wonderfully wise book belies the notion that children don't come with an instruction manual. This is it! Her practical advice on setting loving limits takes parents well beyond discipline and provides lasting lessons in raising caring, confident kids."
--Ann Pleshette Murphy, Parenting Correspondent, "ABC News," "Good Morning America," and "Mother Know How" columnist for Family Circle

"Wonderful advice with specific ideas to help in those frustrating parenting moments. Read it from cover to cover or flip through to find help with your problem-du-jour."
--Vicki Lansky, Author of Feed Me I'm Yours, Games Babies Play, and Practical Parenting Tips

Let's face it, as parents we never plan on sounding exactly like our own parents. But after your toddler has asked you "Why?" for the fifth time in a row, your eight-year-old has an incurable case of the "gimmes," and your defiant ten-year-old won't take no for an answer, those completely ineffective words come flying uncontrollably out of your mouth: "Because I'm your mother, that's why!" It didn't work on you when you were a kid, and it's not working for your kids now that you're a parent. But no parent wants to raise a spoiled kid. We all want to raise children who are caring, compassionate, honest, and responsible. In Loving Without Spoiling, bestselling author Nancy Samalin will help you find better ways to set loving limits without spoiling or overindulging your child.

Nancy Samalin has been showing parents how to balance discipline, love, and humor since 1976 when she founded Parent Guidance Workshops. The author of the bestselling Loving Your Child Is Not Enough, she is considered one of today's most influential and widely respected parenting authorities in the country. In her immensely practical, often entertaining style, Nancy Samalin shares her hundred best tips for raising great kids with unconditional love but without being a pushover parent. Through real-life parent-child dialogues and "from the front lines" advice, you'll learn practical, guilt-free, and parent-tested ways to handle any parenting issue that gets thrown at you.

Organized by general categories for quick reference and then broken down into more specific topics, Loving Without Spoiling offers positive strategies and commonsense solutions to countless parenting challenges. It helps you deal with:

• Power struggles: tame the tantrums, stop the whining, set rules that stick
• The communication gap: stop repeating yourself, keep it simple, connect with your kids
• Sibling rivalry: nix the tattling, get out of the fairness trap, minimize the fighting
• Everyday clashes: win the bedtime wars, avoid homework battles, diminish dawdling, cure the "gimmes"

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0809295512
• ISBN 13: 9780809295517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256