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| Cheap Psychological Tricks for Parents: 62 Sure-Fire Secrets and Solutions for Successful Parenting | 
 enlarge | Author: Perry W., Ph.d. Buffington
Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 287604
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 180
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1561452041
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.1
UPC: 765288520410
EAN: 9781561452040
ASIN: 1561452041
Publication Date: April 2003
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Product Description
Over sixty effective child-rearing tricks and techniques that your mother and your pediatrician never told you about! SOMETIMES PARENTS NEED MORE RESOURCES than love, consistency, and patience to successfully navigate kids through childhood and keep themselves sane at the same time. After all, how do you motivate kids to pick up after themselves and to eat their vegetables without nagging? Psychologist and best-selling author Perry Buffington shows parents how to outsmart their kids and keep a measure of control in the household using tricks and techniques based on current research in the field of behavioral psychology. Using the professional wisdom and effective shortcuts in the book, parents can learn how to: quickly and effectively toilet train little boys manage children's nightmares improve a child's self control, memory, and coordination help your child improve academic performance and quell school-related anxieties Written in down-to-earth language, here is an arsenal of practical methods parents can use to improve their kids' socialization, motivate them to behave better, and encourage them to reach their potential.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Better than his other two but still stinks August 17, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm disenchanted by this author. I bought all three of his books here on Amazon and thank goodness I bought them used or else I'd be livid! What a waste of time. No such 'trick(s)' in this book! Just common sense stuff that you already know. It's all a marketing ploy to get you to buy a book that promises psychological tricks but when you read it, there's no tricks, but rather plain & simple parenting. Oooooh boy! That's so hard to do I need a psychologist to tell me how it's done.
 Big fun! Huge blessing! August 29, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't know what I used to do without some of these helpful little gems! This is such a fun book to read that one almost forgets that it is full of useful, well-researched advice for parents. The best part of all is that the advice works! The financial investment is minimal. The enjoyment and rewards are invaluable.
Great thoughts for Daddy on the go! June 5, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I travel alot and my wife gave me this book for airplane reading. At first I laughed at the title, but I found after reading, it gave lots of good pointers for when I am with my 3 children. I'm not home to apply these principles for the day-to-day activities like my wife, but it really helped me maximize my quality time by providing me with quick responses to situations that I may not have been prepared for. Are you going to write a book to help me when they are teenagers?
thoughts from a first-time mom May 4, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
i'm a first-time mom and have realized over the past year that these primal little creatures definitely have one up on us new parents. it's good to know there's someone on MY side with tips and tricks -- really just good common sense -- to help even the playing field somewhat (pun intended). dr. buff's practical, real-world tips offer help from babyhood to adolescence, so i'll be keeping this guide handy as my toddler grows!
 Bought as a gag gift, and man, what a joke it is April 27, 2005
9 out of 19 found this review helpful
There's nothing new in this book, and no 'psychological tricks' either--it's full of the same old regurgitated bad advice other know-it-all would-be childcare experts have offered. His storytelling advice alone is laughable, and clearly comes from a person that does not often engage in storytime with kids.
The worst offense, however is the shoddy fact-checking that allowed an urban legend to slip into the book--that old myth about kidnappers whisking children away into bathrooms for a quick haircut, dye job and change of clothes before making for the exit. (Don't believe me? Check out Snopes.com and read for yourself.)
Don't waste your money on this book, just use a little common sense.
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