When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It
In the bestselling tradition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?"


It's a given-kids push their parents buttons like nobody else can. Too many parents can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns. WHEN YOUR KIDS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the "road rage of parenting." When parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their child's behavior is telling them, the child becomes the teacher to the parent. Filled with anecdotes from real families, this book is quickly joining the list of parenting classics.
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When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It
In the bestselling tradition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?"


It's a given-kids push their parents buttons like nobody else can. Too many parents can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns. WHEN YOUR KIDS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the "road rage of parenting." When parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their child's behavior is telling them, the child becomes the teacher to the parent. Filled with anecdotes from real families, this book is quickly joining the list of parenting classics.
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When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It

When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It

by Bonnie Harris
When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It

When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do About It

by Bonnie Harris

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In the bestselling tradition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?"


It's a given-kids push their parents buttons like nobody else can. Too many parents can be provoked to react with harmful anger, and children learn to manipulate their parents' emotions repeatedly, resulting in unhealthy life-long patterns. WHEN YOUR KIDS PUSH YOUR BUTTONS shows parents that it is their ideas and perceptions that push their own buttons and provoke the "road rage of parenting." When parents take responsibility for their reactions and listen to what their child's behavior is telling them, the child becomes the teacher to the parent. Filled with anecdotes from real families, this book is quickly joining the list of parenting classics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780446692854
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 07/01/2004
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 13 Years

Table of Contents

Introductionxix
Part 1Something Old
1The Road Rage of Parenting3
2What's Your Agenda?12
3Why Kids Are Parent-Deaf22
4Why Do I Keep Doing That?37
5High Hopes: The Standards We Live By55
6Hidden Triggers70
7Don't Take It Personally--They're Not Out to Get You!85
8What Keeps You Stuck in Old Ruts?98
Part 2The Buttons
9The Button Stories113
10The Approval Button117
11The Control Button129
12The Appreciation Button141
13The Fix-It Button152
14The Responsibility Button164
15The Incompetence Button176
16The Guilt Button188
17The Resentment Button202
Part 3Something New
18Defusing Your Buttons217
19Just When It Feels So Hopeless...233
20Taking Responsibility for Your Anger246
21Your Child Is Your Teacher258
22The Light at the End of the Tunnel274
Appendix277
Suggested Reading283
Index285
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