Try and Make Me!: A Revolutionary Program for Raising Your Defiant Child Without Losing Your Cool

With little jargon and plenty of clarity, Ray Levy and Bill O'Hanlon, with writer Tyler Norris Goode, provide specific, sensible advice to parents who struggle with uncooperative children. Try and Make Me: A Revolutionary Program for Raising Your Defiant Child--Without Losing Your Cool first defines and explains children's defiance (including the ways parents can inadvertently encourage such behavior), and then systematically explores many possible solutions. Emphasizing consequence-based strategies designed to make children reasonably responsible for their actions, the authors refer again and again to anecdotes that will reassure parents that they're not alone. Illus.