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Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
EAN: 9780060923280
ISBN: 0060923288
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 01, 1998
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Editorial Review:
Recently, temperament traits have come to the forefront of child development theory. In Raising Your Spirited Child, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka's first contribution is to redefine the "difficult child" as the "spirited" child, a child that is, as she says, MORE. Many people are leery about books that are too quick to "type" kids, but Kurcinka, a parent of a spirited child herself and a parent educator for 20 years, doesn't fall into that trap. Instead, she provides tools to understanding your own temperament as well as your child's. When you understand your temperamental matches--and your mismatches--you can better understand, work, live, socialize, and enjoy spirit in your child. By reframing challenging temperamental qualities in a positive way, and by giving readers specific tools to work with these qualities, Kurcinka has provided a book that will help all parents, especially the parents of spirited children, understand and better parent their children.
The spirited child — often called "difficult" or "strong-willed" — can easily overwhelm parents, leaving them feeling frustrated and inadequate. Spirited kids are, in fact, simply "more" — by temperament, they are more intense, sensitive, perceptive, persistent, and uncomfortable with change than the average child. Through vivid examples and a refreshingly positive viewpoint, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka offers parents emotional support and proven strategies for handling their spirited child. Raising Your Spirited Child will help you:
- Understand your child's — and your own — temperamental traits
- Plan for success with a simple four-step program
- Discover the power of positive — rather than negative — labels
- Cope with tantrums and blowups when they do occur
- Develop strategies for handling mealtimes, bedtimes, holidays, school and many other situations
Filled with personal insight and authoritative advice, Raising Your Spirited Child can help make parenting the joy it should be, rather than the trial it can be.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Cause, Effect and Practical Solutions!
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka does an excellent job of providing good common sense answers to why children are spirited and practical ways of dealing with the behavior. Observation, analysis and then appropriate action are keys to dealing with this behavior.
For example, in one Section called CHECK SIMULATION Levels Kurcinka writes:
"I always tell parents in my classes that if they ever feel like they are the only parent in the world with a sensitive spirited child, they should ... Read More
Rating: - Great Info !!
VEry useful and easy reading for parents. I am using with parents of strong willed children.
Rating:  - Good, but not great
It's a good book. I know I'm not alone but it lacked in offering true advice. I was left with a "what now?" feeling.
Rating: - Finally felt understood...
and then more understanding.
When I began reading this book I actually felt as if someone had been watching my firstborn son and I or eavesdropping on our conversations, or reading his baby book and my exasperated, secret, momma journals. The author could have been writing about him/us, with names changed to protect the not-so innocent. Someone else has been through this? He isn't so rare? Initially, I didn't know whether to feel horrified or relieved.
He was the newborn ... Read More
Rating: - A great Guide for Parents of "spirited" kids
If you are looking for books about your intense child, then you need this book. Even if you don't buy into it 100%, you will find a lot to inform you. When reading this book, you will recognize things about your child and this book will give you ideas of what you need to accept about your child and what you can realistically change. Mostly, it will give you the feeling that you are not alone, that you are not the only one with an intense child, that this is the way your child was made and that you ... Read More
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