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BOOK REVIEWS
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Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them
Dr. Michele Borba is right on the mark once again! Its great to help our kids learn to do well in school and to gauge their activities properly. Its also invaluable to learn how to teach kids to behave and to have a conscience. (See Michele Borba's many other books on how to do this well.) But without a doubt, friendships are the most pervasive factor in life and it starts young. Michele Borba teaches us how to handle all of the ongoing issues that arise in the friendship jungle...cliques, bad friends, being too sensitive, bullying....all the moments that can make or break our kids days, and apparently, their lives.
Dr. Borba is very clear in her assertion that friendships are supremely important and its our job to help our kids nurture and navigate these waters so they can be successful in this arena their entire lives. In her usual manner of being informative, entertaining and insightful, Dr, Borba has once again given us a timely and essential guide to one of the most important factors to razing happy and successful kids.
- Anne Leedom, Editor-in-Chief, Parentingbookmark.com
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Your Children Are Under Attack
"A timely and well-thought out solution to the crisis of morality our kids face everyday. Dr. Taylor provides practical insight and real strategies to protecting our kids and giving them a solid chance at success in a challenging world. Every parent and teacher will find answers and hope in his original and inspirational words."
- Anne Leedom, Editor-in-Chief, Parentingbookmark.com
From the Publisher:
Dr. Jim Taylor's Your Children Are Under Attack shows parents how to protect their children from American popular culture’s destructive values and how to help them develop the six life-affirming values of respect, responsibility, success, happiness, family, and compassion.
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Be Nice or Else by Winn Claybaugh
Raising kids in today's difficult and materialistic world is a challenge, but raising kids with character takes special attention and devotion. Thanks to Winn Claybaugh and his new book Be Nice or Else, our job just got easier! Winn discusses in the most entertaining and practical guide to come along in years how to just be nice. It seems so simple and yet it’s such a rare thing to witness true nice behavior from others. If there is anything parents wish for its to have their kids grow up healthy and kind. Winn Claybaugh's new book is the definitive guide to eliminate obstacles that might prevent us from being nice, how to recognize and acknowledge genuine nice behavior in others, and how to spread niceness in our daily lives. Give your kids the most powerful gift to change their lives and the lives of everyone around them: inspiring others and healing the world simply by teaching them how to Be Nice or Else!
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No More MisBehavin by Michele Borba
Parents are always looking for great ideas on how to improve their kids’ behavior. Michele Borba's new book offers strategies that are easy and fun to use and that actually work! So many parenting books are based on theory. No More Misbehavin' offers proven and practical ways to address 38 specific behaviors in a way that provides results...and within a short period of time. There is also another unique and important benefit Dr. Borba's book offers...the results are permanent. She shows parents and teachers how to change a behavior and replace it with a more desired behavior. This is what makes her book way ahead of the pack of the many "discipline" books available today. Keep this book close to your nightstand. It will become an indispensable resource.
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Building Moral Intelligence by Michele Borba
Being the mother of two small girls about to enter the public school system, I have spent many nights worrying what kinds of challenges lay ahead. After reading Dr. Borba's book, I sleep much easier. She provides such a clear description of the essential skills that will help parents and teachers prepare kids to succeed. By teaching these virtues to my kids, I know that they will flourish in any situation. Dr. Borba gives practical and easy to use methods to enhance virtues that research has proven reduces aggression in kids. Her examples are entertaining and teach the importance of every moment I spend with my child and the influence I have on developing these traits in her. By offering hard research, then clear descriptions of what each of the seven virtues is, I know how to make a difference in my kids' lives and their ability to cope. Building Moral Intelligence is filled with resources along with proven methods that are fun to implement and even more fun when I see the changes in my kids’ everyday. I hope all parents and teachers will take advantage of this great resource, for our kid's sake.
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Don't Give Me That Attitude by Michele Borba
Finally, a book that gives real solutions to common and embarrassing behaviors I see in so many kids today! As a parent, I highly recommend this book to all parents who want to really improve their child's behavior. Dr. Borba's Don't Give Me That Attitude is easy to follow and filled with practical, simple solutions that really do work! I hope that parents will make this the next book to read on every nightstand in America.
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