No!

Simple way to learn how to understand your child

Learn a healthy way to say No! Perfect book for parents.

Every parent should read this book.

I have read it two times, and will probbably read it again, since its a great book on setting limist, healthy limits with kids. Its not easy, but in a loving strong way I believe it can be done...

The book generally follows Jesper Juul's approach of not being a directly prescriptive parenting guide (no easy five steps here) but more a volume causing parents to reflect what they are doing and how they should be approaching parenting more generally. The main thesis, namely that it is important for children to experience parents as people and not servants, and that this entails saying no and not necessarily constantly acquiescing to children's wants (which the author points out repeatedly are not the same as their needs) may be quite difficult to stomach and even harder to apply for some parents but is likely a very sensible approach overall.The author certainly allows for the possibility of raising well behaved children in the short run by using some more traditional, hard-line approaches (seen and not heard, etc.) but also warns that this is likely to produce severe repercussions later on, usually from the age of six onwards. His plea is for a more holistic parenting, namely allowing children to experience authentic parents - with their own needs and the right to defend those. Children will react better to parents, which are emotionally honest (where the verbal and non-verbal messages match), irrespective if this means giving in or not giving in to the child's demands.The same approach - namely allowing one to say yes to one's own needs and thereby occasionally no to those of others - is equally transferable to other relationships, widening the relevance of the book also to readers, who are not yet or about to become parents.The book will probably not introduce many new aspects to consider to people familiar with the author's work but may be considered a more succinct description of the emotional integrity aspect of a relationship than offered in his other work. At the same time it is also typical of the author's work in the sense that you will not easily transfer the lessons by flipping a switch or doing three things differently - if that is what you are looking for, the author will probably generally frustrate.

Delivered on time. Really good, big fonts so it's easy to read !

Very informative. Helps to set boundaries with our Little Man

Another one of his very nourishing books. I can only highly recommend to read the books of Jesper Juul. We need such a down to Earth approach in educational literature.

Livro muito claro que nos traz o ensinamento que Dizer não ao outro é dizer sim a si mesmo e isso é sobre ser autêntico.