Out of date now, at least for me, but I can see the value it held at the time it was written

Interesting book with a lot of useful material here. The author draws from his extensive experience as a parent and also as a professional counselor. But note that they are not based on scientific or rigorously proven research. The messages are simple and explained with easy-to-follow explanation and practical examples. Some of the themes explained are the importance of time-outs, "five messages of positive parenting", and four temperaments of children. Sometimes sounds gimmicky and repetitive, but probably that's the prevailing style of writing when this book was published 15 years ago.

I learned a couple of things, but the book is outdated and highly repetitive, it could've been condensed in a 30 page article.

Is was good but dated. It was written in the 90's and reflected as such.

Diezgan daudz labu atziñu, kuras jāpamēgina pielietot praksē. Diemžēl grāmatas teksts gan daudz atkārtojas un rodas sajūta, ka brīžiem autors "lej ūdeni", lai sakrātu lielāku lappušu daudzumu. Pietrūkst konkrēta, īsa un kodolīga stāstījuma un arī piemēri varēja būt vairāk.

What a great book! This should be a reference for all parents, and I have been implementing what I learned from this book on my daughter and it is working well.

كتاب جميل
عجبتني قصة أستاذ مربع الذي عنده ثلاث أطفال(( دائرة ومثلث ومربع صغير))
وما أكثر حرصه علي إنتاج مربعات مثالية مثله
وهنا تبدأ معاناة الاطفال والأب
وشعور الأطفال والأب بالذنب .
وظهور أشباه شخصية
طبعا ما أسعد المربع الصغير
وأما الباقي أصبحو مشوهيين لم يصبحو أنفسهم كما يجب ولم يصبحو مربع سليم متعافي بدون أضرار وإنبعاج في سطحه وداخل روحه
أستاذ مربع بدلا من أن تسعي لتربية مربعات مثالية
في إمكانك. تربية أفضل دائرة وأفضل مثلث
((كل طفل سيصبح أفضل في القالب الذي هوا طبيعته))

غالبا احب الاحتفاظ بمثل هذه الكتب فعندما اعجز اجد بها بعض المساندة

كتاب مترجم للكاتب جون غراي
الكتاب يتكلم عن خمسة أساليب للتربية الإيجابيه
للحصول على اطفال متعاونيين واثقيين
يحتاج الآباء إلى قرائته مرات ومرات والتدرب على تلك الأساليب
هذا الكتاب غير الكثيير من افكاري بشأن التربيه ..

This book started out great - a new method of parenting with its own principles that I was excited to learn. Then at the halfway mark it started to get very repetitive. It was like Gray didn't know what words he preferred to use so he rewrote the whole book multiple times. Over and over again he focused on WHY positive parenting is great, but I found myself asking HOW a lot - especially with the principle of keeping your authority. In the end, even the basics of positive parenting seemed quite obvious to me without having to read this book - don't hit your child, listen to them and keep it positive. I would love to learn more about this method with the focus on the practical side of it and from a different author.

I am still reading this book. I am not sure whatto say yet. It is new and different than other parenting books I have read and I like the direction it is going in. I want to talk about it more and think about it more but I need to read more!

My husband said when I mentioned one concept,"That is the opposite as the the other book we read!" I said,"I know, just go with it! It cannot hurt to try."

I still am going to get to this book but the one I am reading right now takes priority! (Hold Onto Your Kids)

Some day I will read them all!

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