Bringing Out the Best in Your Child

80 Ways to Focus on Every Kid's Strengths

Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, Carol Funk

• Publisher: Revell
• eBook ISBN:
  9781441225979
• Year: 2003

Sometimes the traits and behaviors that seem most frustrating and annoying in our children are indicators of positive strengths and future success. Stubbornness can be steadfastness. A strong will may exhibit leadership material. Arguing may indicate negotiating skills. When we identify the behavior in each child and see beyond it to the positive strength it contains, we will then be able to help him succeed by working with his learning style.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• 1. I Get the Front Seat!
• 2. Have You Done Your Homework?
• 3. Too Rough on the Playground
• 4. Don’t Use That Language!
• 5. Do I Have to Tell You Everything?
• 6. Are You Daydreaming Again?
• 7. You Talk Too Much
• 8. Stop Arguing with Me
• 9. Is it Normal to Be So Quiet?
• 10. Too Much Social Life
• 11. Pay Attention to Details
• 12. Who’s That Tap-Tap-Tapping at My Door?
• 13. Why Do You Take Things So Personally?
• 14. You Can’t Make Me
• 15. It Takes Him Forever to Do Anything
• 16. Do You Have to Play All the Time?
• 17. Do You Want to Go to School Naked?
• 18. Gotta Move
• 19. Tattletale
• 20. How Will We Ever Get You Organized?
• 21. Let’s Go Where the Action Is
• 22. Aren’t You Finished Yet?
• 23. Keep Your Hands Off My Stuff
• 24. Don’t Be So Competitive
• 25. How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You?
• 26. Show a Little Confidence in Yourself
• 27. He’s too Analytic to Read
• 28. Stick with the Plan
• 29. What If “Time Out” Doesn’t Work?
• 30. Lose That Smart Mouth
• 31. Stop Taking Things Apart
• 32. The Money’s Burning a Hole in His Pocket
• 33. Finish One Thing Before You Start Another
• 34. Talk, Talk, Talk
• 35. Stop Clinging to Me
• 36. Video Game Wizard
• 37. You Aren’t Wearing That, Are You?
• 38. He’s Never Ready for Bed!
• 39. She Won’t Do Her Homework
• 40. But I Hate to Read!
• 41. Don’t Take Things So Literally
• 42. Guys Have Feelings, Too
• 43. Where Do I Start?
• 44. Is She Just Insecure?
• 45. Do You Know What I Like about You?
• 46. Not Always Ready to Assemble
• 47. Potty Training: Who’s Training Whom?
• 48. I Want to Get Dressed by Myself
• 49. Who Gets to Win the Battle of Wills?
• 50. How Will I Know I’m Special?
• 51. I Need to Know the Right Answer
• 52. Can You Pass the Test without Doing the Homework?
• 53. Could You Be More Specific?
• 54. Are You Sure This Is Just Sibling Rivalry?
• 55. This Vacation Is Boring
• 56. We Can’t Keep Every Stray Animal
• 57. No One Wants to Play with Me
• 58. Isn’t It Close Enough?
• 59. Stay Where I Can See You
• 60. He’s Broken Curfew Again
• 61. Don’t Be Such a Pushover
• 62. Do I Have to Draw You a Picture?
• 63. You Call That a Thinking Noise?
• 64. I Can Hear Music
• 65. You’re Old Enough to Know Left from Right
• 66. You Have a Vivid Imagination
• 67. I Can’t Do Math
• 68. Stop Hitting Me
• 69. Why Is He So Quiet?
• 70. Am I an Overachiever?
• 71. Who Left Their Clothes on the Floor?
• 72. Why Can’t You Just Do What You’re Told?
• 73. I Can’t Do an Outline
• 74. Get Off That Telephone!
• 75. I Hate Small Group Assignments
• 76. I Want the Most Expensive One
• 77. His Driving Lessons Are Driving Me Crazy
• 78. He’s Cheating
• 79. I Won’t Eat It
• 80. Is It Too Late?
• It’s Your Turn to Practice!
• Bibliography
• Favorite Children’s Books