Violence Proof Your Kids Now: How to Recognize the 8 Warning Signs and What to Do about Them

Erika Karres, Ed.D. adds exceptional insight into helping adults turn kids around and away from violent behavior. She provides numerous basic and sound practices, positive approaches, and fool-proof methods valuable to any adult living or working with children who face violence as a way of life. Erika's book is truly a blessing to those willing to listen and learn.

Discussing violence as a symptom of underlying cultural problems, Dr. Karras provides us with eight specific indicators of potential violent acts by young people. She also provides 77 practical, pre-emptive suggestions of what concerned people can do immediately to take command as primary caregiver to the young. In my 36 years in the classroom, and raising four children, I have never read anything to compare with the clarity of these suggestions. Dr. Karras offers them to complement love and concern, with the perspective of an adult taking charge of raising a responsible and sensitive human, rather than handing this task to violence-glamorizing media.