Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person

Martha Heineman Pieper; William J. Pieper

ISBN 10: 155832142X / ISBN 13: 9781558321427

Published by Harvard Common Press, Boston, MA, 1999

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First printing. This book is signed by both authors on the first free end paper. Red lettering on white & tan covers in a red & white dust jacket. 8vo, 249pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smart Love: The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155832142X
• ISBN 13: 9781558321427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Smart Love is a caring and patient approach to parenting created and tested by the husband-and-wife team of Dr. Martha Heineman Pieper and Dr. William J. Pieper. It replaces the old rewards-and-punishments style of parenting parenting as behavior modification which turns parents into disciplinarians, which they don t want to be, and which treats children as miniature adults, which they aren t. Smart Love enables parents to understand the world through the eyes of their child at each stage of development. To Smart Love is to cultivate children s inner happiness while managing their behavior in age-appropriate ways, which ensures that children will grow up well behaved, responsible, self-confident, and able to reach their full potentials.

About the Author

Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist who works with children and parents, and serves as a consultant to agencies and other mental health professionals. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Radcliffe College, she earned her doctorate at the University of Chicago. She recently wrote the first children's book based on Smart Love principles, Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream! The book entertains children while it shows them how to understand and master their bad dreams.  It also provides parents with loving and effective strategies for responding to children who wake them in the night with bad dreams.  William J. Pieper, M.D., is a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who also works with children and parents and consults with other mental health professionals. His B.S. and M.D. degrees are from the University of Illinois. The Piepers also wrote the popular self-help book, Addicted to Unhappiness: Free Yourself from Moods and Behaviors that Undermine Relationships, Work, and the Life You Want.  The Piepers' decades of experience as professionals and their pathbreaking research into the causes and effects of children s inner happiness form the foundation for this book. Smart Love is the guiding principle for Smart Love Family Services, a not-for-profit agency that provides psychotherapy services, parent education, and toddler and preschool programs. Parents of five, the Piepers live in Chicago, Illinois.