Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children

I'm reviewing the copy I own, his older edition which I picked up for $2 at the library book sale. I also checked out his *new* six-point plan which he revised a few years ago, to see what I'd be missing. Some ideas were more fleshed out, but I'm glad to have this one as a reference. This book covers......more

Wow! How could the same man have written Parenting By the Book? This was a very engaging and helpful parenting book. His advice is inline with most of what I was taught in school and was a good refresher. There are a couple of suggestions that he gives that contradict my very "child-centered" child......more

The six points are good. Really. You should read them off the back of the book. If that feels insufficient, the first 3 pages or so of every chapter (one for each point) are also great. But when you go much beyond that you will invariably encounter some version of “if it wasn’t done in the 1950s, it......more

Solid information and good research presented. This is certainly a counter cultural approach to parenting but it is better than many vogue parenting styles so many take after now. “The secret to raising a happy, successful child is to give more attention to your marriage than you give to your child—a......more

Just what my family needed! This book has already change the way our kids behave them selves in the first week or two of following the information in this book. My wife and I are no longer societal parenting sheep! We have been awoken thanks to this book and our children will be the ones to prosper.......more