After reading Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley's excellent book, "Transforming the Difficult Child," I felt a surge of hope for the more problematic children in our world. Finally, someone had discovered how to help parents manage difficult children in a positive, loving way and without medication!
Most of the children Glasser and Easley have worked with were taking medication when they arrived at the Nurtured Heart Approach center. These same children are no longer medicated into submission but living bright, successful lives. These children needed a little or a lot more attention than the average child but were being raised with traditional parenting skills that were rendered ineffective because of their ultra-sensitive natures. The parents of these children needed to learn to apply another set of rules to their kids to help them become the wonderful people they were destined to be.

The Nurtured Heart Approach is an easy, rational, beautiful and loving method of building on the successes of children while not giving energy to the negative aspects of their character. This is an approach that can be used on difficult or "normal" kids. I have begun applying these principles to my own methods of child rearing. They work quickly and magnificintly! It's brilliant in its simplicity and effectiveness.

If you have a difficult child or even if you would like to learn a new positive, ingenious parenting approach, I urge you to read Glasser and Easley's book.

I lending this to Chelseagirl. Don't rush to return it, just whenever you feel you have learnt all you can from it

Arrived safely this morning - thank you so much for this, and the chocolate, which was a lovely surprise :) I've already started reading this and am intrigued by what I've read so far ... it all sounds so simple ..... Hopefully I'll learn some new strategies here to help me with my son. Many, many thanks.

Thanks for the loan of this book. Dan is still on medication - but mainly for school now, and home life is a million times better!

Will send back ASAP.