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Ignore It!

How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction

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Ignore It!

Written by: Catherine Pearlman PhD LCSW
Narrated by: Christine Williams
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This book teaches frustrated, stressed-out parents that selectively ignoring certain behaviors can actually inspire positive changes in their kids.

With all the whining, complaining, begging, and negotiating, parenting can seem more like a chore than a pleasure. Dr. Catherine Pearlman, syndicated columnist and one of America's leading parenting experts, has a simple yet revolutionary solution: Ignore it!

Dr. Pearlman's four-step process returns the joy to child-rearing. Combining highly effective strategies with time-tested approaches, she teaches parents when to selectively look the other way to withdraw reinforcement for undesirable behaviors. Too often we find ourselves bargaining, debating, arguing, and pleading with kids. Instead of improving their children's behavior, parents are ensuring that it will not only continue but often get worse. When children receive no attention or reward for misbehavior, they realize their ways of acting are ineffective and cease doing it. Using proven strategies supported by research, this book shows parents how to:

  • Avoid engaging in a power struggle
  • Stop using attention as a reward for misbehavior
  • Use effective behavior modification techniques to diminish and often eliminate problem behaviors
  • Overflowing with wisdom, tips, scenarios, frequently asked questions, and a lot of encouragement, Ignore It! is the parenting program that promises to return bliss to the lives of exasperated parents.

©2017 Catherine Pearlman, PhD LCSW (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Some good insights

Overall some good insights here, but not really anything I didn't know/learn from other sources. I will listen again and update my review soon #Audible1

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Well intentioned purchase but...

So “Ignore It” as an audio book is a bit of a fail. The author writes role plays in her book so when you're listening to it, you're actually listening to an adult talking in a whiny kid voice. The examples used certainly convey the theory but to listen to the fictional dialogue is painful at times.

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Comparing children who want attention to junkies…

Yes. She literally compares children who want their parents’ attention to “junkies who need their next fix”
It was hard to listen to after that, but I tried. Unfortunately the book doesn’t get better.
Definitely do not recommend.

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