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Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days | 
 enlarge | Author: Dr. Kevin Leman
Publisher: Revell
Category: EBooks
List Price: $17.99
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $8.00 (44%)
Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 176
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.64
ASIN: B001CPUQBK
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Product Description
Every kid in America will hate this book! But moms will love it! Tired of defiant attitudes and power struggles with your little ankle-biters? Then you need this book. With his signature wit and wisdom, internationally recognized family expert Dr. Kevin Leman reveals why your kids do what they do and what you can do about it. He gives you simple principles that can give you results in as little as 5 days.
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 Great Book December 29, 2008
Nothing really earth-shattering or new here, at least for me (I do know parents, however, that could benefit from this crash course in creating a respectful family with kids that are enjoyable to be around). But even if you have great, well-behaved kids, it's still good to revisit the central themes of this book: Creating good attitudes, behavior and character in our children. I don't know so much about the 5 day plan, but Leman offers some good solid strategies to employ nonetheless. Straight-forward parenting advice: B does not happen until A is completed. Some good strategies and recommendations, especially on what are "mountains" vs. "molehills" (ie. what to focus on and what to let go of). I liked his writing style - no psychological mumbo-jumbo. Just good, plain advice that everyone can benefit from.
Much of the last part of the book is dedicated to specific topics and how to handle them (from "allowance" to "undereating"). This part dragged for me a bit, as I was reading straight through, but I can see where it would be helpful as a reference point. Recommended.
 Leman knows his stuff! December 19, 2008
The advice he gives in this is so simple and practical...I can't believe the difference I've seen in my kids. It only took me two days to read the book and the kids turned around in just a couple days. THANK YOU Dr. Leman!!! I love his humor and his common sense approach to parenting. Now, my kids believe what I say when I say it and they take it seriously...I no longer feel like I'm talking (or yelling!) to myself and our whole family is able to enjoy our interactions with each other much more!
 Taking away cookies and car keys. What a disappointment! December 17, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I heard about this on a James Dobson radio talk show, and immediately purchased it. I read every word through to Friday. What a disappointment!
It just seems to be a boundless list of things to take away from your child. Maybe it works well for little kids. But my daughter was 14 at the time (15 now), and I needed to learn to communicate with her! Not to take away chocolate chip cookies and car keys (she doesn't even drive yet!)
After you get through to the Friday chapter, the majority of the book is on Problems and solutions. It has a list of potential problems. I would identify a problem and read it through with deep interest noticing this problem described my daughter to a T, but then the solution was always the same, Take away the car keys, or ground her, or something like that.
My daughter is responsible. She makes straight A's. She goes to church. She participates with the family. Her problem was her hot temper. Taking things personally. Getting easily offended over little things.
I needed to learn to communicate with her! I needed to learn how to talk to her and LISTEN to what she is saying to me so that I don't brush off her "little problems" as insignificant and let her know if they are real to her, they are real to me, so that she didn't blow up in the first place! I didn't find that out from this book. Instead I found that out from another book:
"Mom, I Hate My Life!": Becoming Your Daughter's Ally Through the Emotional Ups and Downs of Adolescence (A Hand-in-Hand Book)
I felt the "New Kid" author was very arrogant in assuming the problem is always with the child. There seemed to be nothing to help the parent realize they were part of the problem. If you want to spend your life grounding your child and taking things away from them, get "Have a New Kid by Friday." He doesn't seem to have a clue about the mother-daughter relationship.
Otherwise, if you want to learn where YOU can improve as a parent, where you can learn to listen to your child, learn the different mothering styles and identify yours and how to improve based on that knowledge; if you want to learn HOW to communicate in the first place so that the bad behavior doesn't occur, then get "Mom, I hate my life." Granted this book is for teen daughters (if you're daughter has started at 8 or 10, read it now).
Maybe "New kid by Friday" will work for you and your toddler. I never had toddler problems.
The only reason I didn't give this book the lowest score was because after reading it, I realized my daughter is wonderful compared to the other kids in this book. She makes straight A's, she gets up in the morning on time and goes to school on time, she does her homework without being prompted, she helps around the house, she's funny, sweet, very responsible, goes to church with us without complaining -- all things listed as problems with other kids. It helped me realize that grounding her is not the solution as she doesn't deserve grounding. She doesn't deserve to have her cell phone taken away.
She instead deserves a mother who will listen and learn to communicate with her and see that to her, her problems are real, not insignificant, and thus allow us to talk and care about each other so that the Katie-boom moments don't occur. Again, to learn all that, you'll need another book, "Mom, I hate my life."
Blessings.
All parents must read!!!! simple to apply, solid information ,and very enjoyable to read. December 2, 2008
Dont pass this one up,your kids adulthood depends on it as well as your sanity and profitability of your parenting journey.
Awesome book!!! November 23, 2008
"Have A New Kid By Friday" is the most relevant, down to earth book I've ever read on child rearing. Kevin Leman has compiled a "how-to" list of difficult situations parents face in every day life in an easy to follow, easy to implement way that makes following the book enjoyable for the parent, life changing for the child... preserving and enhancing relationship and accountability.
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