Kids Are from Jupiter: A Guide for Puzzled Parents

Chamberlain, Mark Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 157345575X / ISBN 13: 9781573455756

Published by Shadow Mountain, 2000

About this Item

Crease on front cover near top tip, no creases in spine, small bump to bottom of spine, no rips or tears, no slant, tight binding, 172 bright white unmarked pages.

Seller Inventory # 13188

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kids Are from Jupiter: A Guide for Puzzled Parents
• Publisher: Shadow Mountain
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157345575X
• ISBN 13: 9781573455756
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 11 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Parenting

About this title

Synopsis

Parenting is a puzzling task. The rules are always changing, expert opinions vary widely and strategies that work with child number one are rarely effective for child number two. But help is on the way!

Mark Chamberlain begins his delightful book by describing How To Host an Alien, offering understanding of those confusing little beings we call our children. How to Neutralize Parent Paralyzers teaches parents to work past stumbling blocks of guilt, feelings of inadequacy, and perfectionism.

Readers will learn such tricks of the trade as learning to pounce when a child is behaving rather than misbehaving, how to channel children's attention back to choices they can make, and how to make bad behavior costly. (The author's own mother finally posted a sign, 10 cents per slam, on the back door to curb door slamming habits.)

Kids Are from Jupiter is a funny, sympathetic, sensible and enormously practical guide for Earthling moms and dads everywhere.

About the Author

Mark Chamberlain is a practicing psychologist who has worked with children and their families in a variety of clinical settings over the last thirteen years. He and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of four boys.