1-2-3 Magic

DaiLyght

I know I've seen this mentioned on the board several times, but a friend of mine just started reading it and was raving about it. In talking, I realized that DS1 is very similar to her DD1, who is about 1 yr older. I'm starting to think I need to look into it.

If you've read it, could you tell me what you liked and didn't like about it, and if it worked for you?

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it's a pretty blunt read -- the author doesn't have a ton of tact. that said, it has decent logic and I defintely use it as one behavior strategy and supplement with plenty of others!

CleoKitty

vccake:

it's a pretty blunt read -- the author doesn't have a ton of tact. that said, it has decent logic and I defintely use it as one behavior strategy and supplement with plenty of others!

I would agree. I haven't actually read the book, but several years ago I went to a presentation by the author of the book and was pretty turned off. Although the book may have some good ideas I had such an intense dislike for the guy that I pretty much decided that I had no interest in his methods.

Littlejen22

ETA:  Oops, wrong book!

I never finished reading it and did not really implement it but it seems like a great idea when reading but I did not find it specific enough for the problems I deal with.  The basis is to give your kid choices all day so that when you have things that are you are not giving choices on you can put your foot down and point out to your kid how many choices they have in other areas.  But my kid gets tons of choices all day and he still wants to be the boss of our house, and I have no idea how to implement his ideas when I am dealing with issues like DS convincing DD to do bad things, hitting DD, refusing to accept that we are not baking cupcakes before lunch and he needs to wait to after, getting him to go into time out without be dragging him forcefully.

I plan on buying a New Kid by Friday but not sure how it will be, I will let you know.