re: Recommend a book on parenting little kids

quote:

---

123 magic

---

This is a good one if you’re looking from a discipline standpoint. Can also get everyone in the house on the same page of parenting norms.

Raising Mentally Strong Kids. The author is a bit of a quack doctor so you have to take a lot of it with a grain of salt, but the core ideas and methods are sound: making kids that aren’t soft, entitled shite bags through providing safe environments for them to fail, make mistakes, have responsibilities, get hurt, be bored, solve problems, do things for themselves and learn how to deal with it before they turn into helpless adults.

You have all the parenting wisdom you need on the OT.

Make rules
Enforce rules firmly and fairly
Be consistent
Show love

The end.

Time out should be their age.

2 yrs. old, two minute punish chair.

hold on to your kids

This book digs deep past superficial lessons and advice, and gets to the common denominators of our actions and concerns. The real reasons why we get frustrated with our children, how to connect with them by simply being attuned, and the eye-opening cultural shift from parental orientation to peer orientation where formerly children wanted to be like their parents and families spent time together with other families, to a new concept where kids now aspire to be like other kids. The definition of dysfunction.

Hop On Pop, by Dr, Seuss. Even if you don't read it, it will become true.

The Art of War - Sun Tzu