Children Are People Too: A Parent's Guide to Young Children's Behaviour
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ISBN-13:9780975114582
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Should we reward ‘good’ behaviour and punish the ‘bad’?
Should we award children stars on a chart when they do as they are told but send them to a “naughty step” when they disobey?
Parent and child psychologist, Dr Louise Porter thinks not! Although popular and sometimes effective in the short term, Dr Porter explains why a controlling approach to children’s behaviour usually results in more work for parents and long-term problems for children. Dr Porter advocates a guidance approach to raising children that will result in their being more confident, considerate, co-operative, and independent.
By acknowledging children’s positive actions and teaching them when their behaviour interferes with others, a guidance approach aims to safeguard children’s self-esteem and to honour children’s need to be in command of themselves. It also enriches our relationships with our children, sustaining a closeness that endures into their adult lives.
Praise for Children are people too
"Louise Porter, who is a psychologist and early learning specialist, is...rethinking some of the parenting givens, things we take for granted about how to produce children who know right from wrong apart from anything else."
—Geraldine Doogue, 'Life Matters' ABC Radio National
"Would you send your klutzy colleague to the naughty corner for spilling their coffee again? Or say, ‘Good boy, you can have a biscuit now that you’ve eaten your lunch?’ It sounds ridiculous - but adults say and do this to children all the time. Dr Louise Porter, child psychologist, explains why it doesn’t work!"
—Australian Family magazine, November 2006
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Copyright Louise Porter 2006. All rights reserved.
Previously published by East Street Publications.
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright above, no part of this publication shall be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.
Cover designed by Ellie Exarchos.
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About the Author
Dr Louise Porter has 28 years’ experience as a child psychologist, working with children, their parents and educators on their developmental, emotional and social challenges. She has also taught university graduate-level subjects in early childhood, gifted and special education and behaviour management for 15 years. She is a sought-after speaker both nationally and internationally on the needs of young children.
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PH.D., M.A.(HONS.), M.GIFTED.ED., DIP.ED.
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they do not belong to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
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Reviewed by kiradog on Aug 21, 2009
Somewhat thought-provoking...strayed a bit at the end
I am a Mom of 2 children, ages 3 and 18 mos. As a child, I consistently felt that my ideas and wants really didn't matter and that I wasn't respected by the majority of adults. The title of the book caught my attention, because I have always felt that children deserve to be treated with the same respect you would treat an adult.
The book was easy to read, and had some great examples of guidance theory in practice versus authoritarian rule. However, I grew bored and distracted at the end of the book as the author discussed child abuse in depth. I felt this should have been a separate book as it took away from the message earlier in the book.
I feel that the authors theories are largely based of of John Gottmans Emotional Coaching lessons. The Heart of Parenting by John Gottman is similar in teaching empathy and emotional coaching ie. guidance of children.
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Children Are People Too: A Parent's Guide to Young Children's Behaviour
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