Product Description

Featuring a Foreword by popular parenting book author Dr. William Sears, this concise and straightforward book is filled with applied skills that teach children to cooperate, end sibling fights, boost children's self-esteem, and help parents handle discipline and anger with understanding and authority. An enlightening "parenting style" quiz reveals typical patternss and pitfalls.

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great ideas        Rating:

This book is excellent for parents that want to raise their children in a peaceful and loving environment.

Great advice -- loved this book!        Rating:

This is the first book I have read by Elizabeth Pantley and I think she is amazing!
This book is honest, practical and doable.

So many of the parenting books out there tell you what to do and what the results will be. What you are supposed to do is near impossible and the results are sporadic or not typical.

Here Pantley give us specific ways to parent, discipline and work with our kids. Written in a way that is easy to put into practice right away. And she does great reminder pages and wrap ups. She's honest about her own parenting failures and give us acceptance when we screw up.

I have recommended this book to my mom's club and think it is the best parenting book I have read (and that is saying a lot!)

A Lot of Good Advice For Parents but Sometimes Over-Simplistic        Rating:

Kid Cooperation offers a lot of good advice for parents who are looking for a gentle way to teach their children to behave and cooperate. there are a lot of examples of scenerios of kids misbehaving, and solutions of what a parent should do or say to stop the misbehavior. Throughout the book there are reminder pages that summarize ideas that Ms. Pantley presents. Another nice feature is a list of additional reading material that addresses specific behavioral problems.

In general, I felt that while a lot of good advice was given, some of the scenarios were overly-simplistic. For example, in one scenario, Child A is awakened by a cheerul mommy, is lavished with praise, and not reprimanded for an accidental spill. When Child A puts on two-mis-matched shoes and gets ridiculed by friends, she cheerfully laughs it off and says it's the start of a new fashion. Child B is awakened by a not-so-cheerful mommy, is criticized for various things, and reprimanded for an accidental spill. When Child B puts on two mis-matched shoes and gets ridiculed by friends, she falls apart. Well, yes, Child A has had better parenting, but what if Child A was a grumpy old soul, and not a cheerful little girl? What about peer pressure?

I personally prefer Elizabeth Pantley's, The No-Cry Discipline Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behavior Without Whining, Tantrums, and Tears: Foreword by Tim Seldin (Pantley). It's a shorter read with the same good advice, minus some of the overly-simplistic examples.

So far so good        Rating:

The only reason I haven't given this book five stars is because I haven't finished it. Raising little adults isn't the easiest. You have to allow them to be kids, but also set boundaries. After my second child, I turned into a yeller. It became so taxing on my system, let alone upsetting my girls. This book as really helped guide me with stradegies. Having a plan is key to keeping things calm. I feel blessed to have my two beautiful girls in my life, and this book helped me express those feelings with love and great parenting!

Book is a Sanity Saver!        Rating:

I recently purchased the book "Kid Cooperation", ended up reading it in one night and feeling completely shocked and amazed - finally found an easy to read, easy to follow parenting book that covered every problem I had and that made it seem completely possible to make the changes necessary for my family. I cannot say enough positive things about the book, it will be life changing for me and my children.

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