Martha
I love browsing bookstores! I tend to find books I never knew existed, including new books from favorite authors. This one links Senrid (which I didn't particularly like) with Crown/Court Duel (which I loved) & had historical references to the Inda series (also very good). I spent a very enjoyable 2 1/2 hours reading this. I'll also say that Russav was right enough to win the bet!
Not as much detail on what they actually did for school, but lots of discussion of why they did homeschool and the advantages they found in it. Did mention differences between various children & how they dealt with them.
I wasn't very impressed. Sure, it's a good idea to think what you might be doing to encourage your child's bad behavior, but it's not always 50% your fault (and the solutions she suggests put more than 50% of the changes on the shoulders of the parents). Some solutions sounded good, like ignoring tantrums so they don't get the attention they want, but others were very unrealistic. For instance, just ignoring backtalk is not going to make it go away, in my experience. And if I told my kids that they wouldn't get punished for doing something wrong as long as they told the truth about it, I'd probably have very honest trouble-makers.
Not so good for how to change your child's behavior, but excellent for how you can change your reaction.
I actually read the 2009 version. Very good for planning ahead of time. Includes a line-minimizing plan that worked very well last time we tried it (several years ago, from an older edition). (Or was it the plan from Hidden Disneyland?) Fairly comprehensive & nice illustrations, but does not do a good job of warning which rides are not for chickens.
It should have gotten a higher rating, but it just didn't pull me in the way it should have.
Discussed Active Listening (a way to accurately decode communication, while letting children solve their own problems) and negotiating win-win compromises with children. Also discussed the difference between the child's problems (and how to be helpful but disengaged) and the parent's problems with the child, and the different approaches to take with each type.
Also called “Why Say No When the World Says Yes: Resisting Temptation in an Immoral World”.
Essays on morality for youth.
I liked some of the stories, and tolerated others, but I never did make it through Patchwork Monkey....
3 1/2 stars. Easy to read straight through, but also discusses specific scriptures & words of modern prophets.