“The one really positive message I got from my mom and dad was that anything you want to do, you could do… The harder you work, the more talented you…
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I’ve had See Jane Win by Dr. Sylvia Rimm on my bookshelf for well over a year. Having just finished blogging about Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,…
I chose to blog about The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua in the hope that reading the book would motivate me to become more disciplined, make…
“Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.” Therefore, when her daughters gave her homemade birthday cards she deemed unacceptable, Chua gave them back. “I want a better one…
“America changes people,” Amy Chua writes. It’s this kind of statement and the anecdotes that follow about how she married a non-Chinese man and how her youngest sister, who was…
I realize The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua isn’t a parenting book, but when I read her article in The Wall Street Journal in January, “Why…
Still being manipulated by your kids to give them what they want? Then, check out author David Swanson’s formulas for how parents can effectively respond to such tactics. Here’s the…
Are you tired of your kid manipulating you and others in order to get what he wants? Then, check out author David Swanson’s formulas for how parents can effectively…
According to Help! My Kid is Driving Me Crazy, “Children demand instant gratification, and toward that end they use tools that they acquire through trial and error to satisfy short-term…
“Your goal is nurturing, protecting, and strengthening your child so he can learn to operate in the world successfully,” argues David Swanson, author of Help – My Kid is Driving…
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman conclude Nurture Shock with a look at gratitude. While it’s always been regarded as important, only recently have researchers come to believe gratitude is more…
“People simply cannot tell when kids are lying,” authors Bronson and Merryman argue. Despite parents’ claims otherwise, research actually reveals the opposite is true. And that’s not the only conventional…
