1-2-3 Magic: 3-Step Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting

advice and the other half is not. The good half is this: if you are feeling positively tow ...

Watch your two-year-olds. They want to be like those cool five- year-olds, who can do a lot more ne ...

There are discipline systems other than the 1-2-3 program, but you will ruin any of them by talking too ...

PART II Controlling Obnoxious Behavior Parenting Job 1 CHAPTER 5 Getting Results through Counting CHAPTER 6 Advice for Nearly ...

5 GETTING RESULTS THROUGH COUNTING Sometimes Your Silence Speaks Louder Than Your Words WHEN YOUR KIDS ARE acting up, you ...

to motivate her to practice the piano. Second, if you are new to 1-2-3 Magic, after you learn how to do the ...

Introduction to Counting How does the 1-2-3 process work? Imagine you have a four-year-old child who is having a ...

Quik Tip What is going to happen in a relatively short time is this: you’ll start getting good control—believe it or not—at 1 ...

across the room, and all you have to do is say, “That’s 1” or “That’s 2,” and you don’t have to get up or ...

get ready for bed, he replies, “You blankity-blank!” Same thing. “That’s 3. Take five, and add ...

What’s the problem here? Ninety percent of the time the problem is that the parents “forgot” the No Talking and ...

Children can’t respond properly to warnings if they don’t hear them clearly in the first place. Finally, ...

dinner at 5:45 p.m. when her eight-year-old daughter walks into the kitchen: “Can I have a Twinkie ...

“Can I have a Twinkie?” “No, dear.” “Why not?” “’Cause we’re eating at six o’clock.” “Yeah, but I want ...

“That’s 1.” “You never give me anything!” “That’s 2.” “THEN I’M GOING TO KILL MYSELF AND THEN RUN AWAY FROM ...

jerk!” there would be an automatic 3 and the girl would be off to her room for a longer time-out. Is i ...

Quik Tip Give one explanation, if absolutely necessary, and then count. No extra talking and no extra emotion. You stay calme ...

seconds. Are the children frustrated when they are counted and don’t get their way? Of course, but they ge ...

reasonable, especially when you’re angry. These days there is an argument about the use of punishment in ...

the idea with parents who are struggling with their child’s behavior at home. When kids get the same mes ...