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Setting Limits With Your Strong-Willed Child Summary

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The book that I chose to read was Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries by Robert J. Mackenzie. The book is a revised and expanded 2nd addition and was published in 2013 by Three Rivers. When I was searching through all of the different parenting books, this one stood out to me simply because of the title. I personally have a child who can be rather strong-willed; thus, I was interested in hearing what the author had to say. I purchased the book on Amazon Prime for $12.83.
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This book covers a multitude of different topics; such as, understanding your strong-willed child, how strong-willed children learn your rules, how parents teach their rules, soft limits and firm limits, the family dance, how to be clear with your words, stopping power struggles before they being, supporting your rules with logical consequences, managing the resistance you’ll likely encounter, motivating your child to cooperate, teaching skills: showing them what works best, patience: the remedy for anger and frustration, and understanding the change process. Within these 13 topics, Mackenzie emphasized how …show more content…

Learning theory is used to explain the different changes in behavior that come from practice. Thus, the different behavior that comes from the parents practicing new limits and boundaries. In addition, Mackenzie is an educational psychologist and family therapist who founded the Setting Limits program and works directly with strong-willed children. Curiously, I looked up the Setting Limits Program and it is a research-based program on methods of child guidance and discipline for teachers, schools, parents, and providers. This program is strongly correlated with his books; thus, it is evident that all of Mackenzie’s work is based off of research and

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