\u201cThere\u2019s praise, and there\u2019s encouragement, and your kids are smart enough to know the difference.\u201d\u00a0 Do you?<\/p>\n
Have a New Kid by Friday, t<\/em>he newest book by Dr. Kevin Leman, author of previous parenting classics such as The Birth Order Book <\/em>and Making Children Mind without Losing Yours, <\/em>promises to change your child\u2019s attitude, behavior, and character in just five days.\u00a0 Sound too good to be true?\u00a0 Well, dozens of parents who\u2019ve tried it testify at the end of each chapter as to how their toddlers and teenagers alike have changed by using Dr. Leman\u2019s tactics.<\/p>\n Half of the book is given to detailed instructions for each day of Dr. Leman\u2019s challenge, Monday through Friday.\u00a0 Parenting principles like \u201cnever threaten your kids,\u201d \u201cdon\u2019t give any warnings,\u201d \u201calways follow through,\u201d or \u201ckeep a happy face on, even when you want to . . . do something else\u201d are explained and even guaranteed to work.<\/p>\n The \u201cAsk Dr. Leman\u201d section is an alphabetical listing of over one hundred child-behavior topics with advice and an action plan for parental response, not just reaction.\u00a0 Dr. Leman\u2019s gleeful anticipation of what he calls \u201cFun Day,\u201d the day you launch your plan, and his sense of humor help to alleviate parental anxiety, panic and desperation.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, Have a New Kid by Friday<\/em> promises that parents, too, will have a change of attitude and behavior.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s imperative that they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cThere\u2019s praise, and there\u2019s encouragement, and your kids are smart enough to know the difference.\u201d\u00a0 Do you? Have a New Kid by Friday, the newest book by Dr. Kevin Leman, author of previous parenting classics such as The Birth Order Book and Making Children Mind without Losing Yours, promises to change your child\u2019s attitude, behavior, […] Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}