Setting Limits, Revised & Expanded 2nd Edition: How to Raise Responsible, Independent Children by Providing CLEAR Boundaries

...reach for this book first. It is the perfect emergency handbook for out of control kids and their parents. With very little fanfare, MacKenzie shows you have to regain control over your children without screaming, threatening or inflicting bodily harm. He shows you how to set firm limits and let your children test those limits and learn your new boundaries.The truly amazing thing about his method is, it works! It is humane, rationale, devoid of all the squishy politically correct nouveau-parenting verbiage, and smacks of common sense. I tried it on my kids, who are at times utterly impossible, and after about a week, they started listening to me the first time instead of the twentieth. This is the one that I am shoving under my hubby's nose to save him from his shouting matches with the kids. And when he's not reading it, I keep thumbing through it to remind myself of the things in it I need to remember. Bad parent habits are not easy to kick. Keep this book on your night-table, and take a dose of it every night at bedtime-- then watch your family's sanity grow.

Setting limits and sticking to them is a very difficult thing to do for must of us as parents, as well as in other parts of our lives. While this book is the best book, hands down, on parenting issues that I have read...I found it to be helpful in finding my "limits" and setting them in other in other relationships in my life. People, not only children, learn quickly to to respect and respond to your new boundries... It is quite an empowering thing, for all involved. Try it, you will not be sorry!

I have read plenty of parenting books and have disagreed with some of the material. In Mr. MacKenzie's book there was not a single thing I disagreed with. It really helped me to understand why my children behave the way they do and how to change their behavior. I have been recommending this book to everyone I know. It is a must have book for parents.

From the perspective of a parent of four children under 13, this book tells it like it REALLY IS! In thinking back to before we had children, I can honestly say that I would have read and benefitted from it, because I saw so much that I recognized from my childhood that I could relate to. There are lots of 'ahas' in this book. The solutions are common sense and eminently 'do-able'. There is no way to recommend it enough.

Dr, Mac Kenzie simply states many difficulties parents have in dealing with their children and offers concrete, practical suggestions to alleviate these situations. His well-organized book is easy to read. A comprehensive index makes the book a must-have reference.