Therapeutic Parenting: How to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Child

Therapeutic Parenting is a very well written, easy to follow book. It condenses the various types of children's problems into chapters so that parents can understand their child's problems. I really enjoyed reading about natural and logical consequences in dealing with your kids. It really helped me to understand the different ways to handle children, especially in difficult circumstances!

Aren't children amazing? They know just which buttons to push to get a parent going! No matter what problem your child is experiencing and thus, which button he or she is pushing at any given time, it is addressed in this book. Not only does Ms. Kim recognize this issue, she gives examples showing a parent's normal reaction, and then shows how a parent's calm and matter-of-fact response can defuse the situation turning a negative experience into a positive one. The book format makes it an excellent reference guide easily referred to as various situations arise. This makes it a book that can be used over and over again instead of being read once and placed on a shelf. This is definitely a book for every parent. It will help you to keep your sanity, especially when your children are in the "terrible two's and horrible three's" and during those "challenging" teenage years.

...This book is a must have for anyone with children......it lets parents know that many of the things that kids do are normal and aren't the end of the world. The author gives excellent recommendations on how to manage your children on a general basis. But the best thing about this book is that the author K.H. Kim addresses a problem behaviors that are can be very frustrating and overwhelming for parents to handle. Not only will you find that many of these behaviors are perfectly normal, but you will also be given suggestions for dealing with them......

I found this book to be particularly insightful. I can even apply these lessons to my own self. I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get a head start on raising kids, and even surviving them.

I wish I'd had this book available to me after the famous Dr. Spock primer, the parent's bible for young parents during the 70's. Having raised two sons, this book could have answered many of the questions I had as a young mother during their youth. Therapeutic Parenting is easy to read and well organized, enabling the reader to find information for any specific concern regarding children's emotional issues. The information is clearly defined by topic so that the book can be consulted as problems arise. The language has been distilled from Ms. Kim's case studies where she has drawn from her vast experience in the field of counseling to give any adult the working tools in order to succeed in the complex and difficult world of communicating with children today. It is a book that should be on the reference shelf of every adult working with children. I imagine Oprah will be saying the same to us in the near future.