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Kids Are Worth It! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline by Barbara Coloroso.

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback, 352pgs

This bestselling guide rejects "quick-fix" solutions and focuses on helping kids develop their own self-discipline by owning up to their mistakes, thinking through solutions, and correcting their misdeeds while leaving their dignity intact. Barbara Coloroso shows these principles in action through dozens of examples — from sibling rivalry to teenage rebellion; from common misbehaviors to substance abuse and antisocial behavior. She also explains how to parent strong-willed children, effective alternatives to time-outs, bribes, and threats, and how to help kids resolve disputes and serious injustices such as bullying.

Filled with practical suggestions for handling the ordinary and extraordinary tribulations of growing up, kids are worth it! helps you help your children grow into responsible, resilient, resourceful adults — not because you tell them to, but because they want to.

This upbeat book will prove a lifesaver for parents faced with the age-old dilemma of how to discipline children in a positive, empowering way. By encouraging kids to make decisions, take responsibility for their actions and learn from their mistakes, Coloroso's approach indicates how parents can teach their children inner discipline.

Barbara Coloroso is the author of the international bestseller Kids Are Worth It! and Parenting Through Crisis and is an acclaimed speaker on parenting, teaching, conflict, resolution, and grieving. Featured in Time, the New York Times, and on many radio and television shows.