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When Your Kids Push Your Buttons

by Bonnie Harris

If you're a parent, you know the feeling. In one moment, with one sentence, a certain look, or a defiant act, your kid pushes your buttons-and you react in a way that you will later regret. In this beautiful, wise, and deeply insightful book, family counselor Bonnie Harris shows you how to defuse parenting "road rage" — and end the action-and-reaction cycle between you and your child once and for all.

When Your Kids Push Your Buttons

…takes you step by step through a process of understanding. Whether you're a parent of an eighteen-month-old or an eighteen-year-old, you'll discover why certain behaviors just seem to drive you crazy. Revealing how the anger of both kids and parents contain hidden messages, this book offers you tools and techniques to gain control of your emotions, see situations differently, react calmly and effectively when your children misbehave, and, most of all, give your kids the help they may really be asking for.

When Your Kids Push Your Buttons
And What You Can Do About It
By Bonnie Harris
Warner Books
$14.00
ISBN: 0446692859
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Based on hundreds of real-life family situations, When Your Kids Push Your Buttons follows a few clear principles and uses insightful self-awareness exercises to show you:

Why your hot spots usually have more to do with your relationship with your parents than with your children
Why your own hidden agendas, standards, and assumptions as a parent may be pushing your children to act out
How to address specific behavior problems, not by getting angry, but by offering new solutions
How to break free of the past, start parenting with a clean slate, and connect with your children

With compassion and clarity, When Your Kids Push Your Buttons is the rare self-help book that offers the possibility of real and lasting change. Effective and inspiring, here is a guide to treating our children with the respect and acceptance they need, and with the wisdom and patience we desire.

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"I am constantly astonished and delighted by your rich and insightful answers to parents. I have been a therapist for many years and I work with children as well as adults. Yet with all my experience and my knowledge, there is something so strong and assured about your views on child/parent relationships that they continue to engage and add to my knowledge. I think you do beautiful work."
—grandmother & therapist from Israel

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—mother of two & author

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—mother of a two year old

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