| The first thing I noticed when I opened up the box for | | | | Character, Emotions, Social Scene, School, Special |
| "The Big Book of Parenting Solutions: 101 Answers to | | | | Needs, Day to Day, and Electronics. Under these |
| Your Everyday Challenges and Wildest Worries" by | | | | topics you will find the various problems and solutions. |
| Michele Borba was the title was not kidding, this is one | | | | For instance, say you want to know how to deal with |
| big book. It's over 700 pages! Of course page count is | | | | tantrums. You find tantrums under the Behavior section |
| not the measure of quality when it comes to a book, | | | | and go to that solution. It tells you there is additional |
| it's the information contained in those pages. With "The | | | | information in different parts of the text, defines the |
| Big Book of Parenting," the content is just as | | | | problem, the change you will want, why change, signs |
| impressive as the book's size. | | | | and symptoms that the tantrums are becoming |
| The book contains answers to what the author calls | | | | something to worry about, and then the solution. The |
| the top 101 contemporary child-rearing challenges. The | | | | solution actually takes up several pages and includes |
| strategies are based on sound psychological principles | | | | early intervention, rapid response, and developing habits |
| and proven scientific research and can be used | | | | for change. There are also side boxes that contain |
| immediately by the reader. The strategies are | | | | helpful advice and real life examples and cases. |
| designed for children three to thirteen, regardless of | | | | My wife and I have struggled with many of the |
| gender, race, religion, or culture. With that said, these | | | | challenges presented in this massive tome of |
| are general strategies, and the reader should take the | | | | information. At times it has been frustrating not |
| suggestions, strategies and ideas presented in this | | | | knowing the best way to deal with certain issues. I'm |
| volume and modify them to fit the specific needs of | | | | extremely happy to have this guide as a resource to |
| the child they are working with and the family values | | | | help us raise our daughter. I just wish this extremely |
| being taught in the reader's home. | | | | practical book would have been available a couple of |
| There is a good introduction that not only advises the | | | | years ago. If you are raising kids from three to thirteen, |
| reader on the design of the book and how to use it, | | | | I recommend Michele Borba's book to assist you with |
| but also some general parenting advice. The 101 | | | | being the best parent you can possibly be. |
| solutions are divided into parts titled: Family, Behavior, | | | | |