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Happy Families: A Parents' Guide to the Non-Violent Resistance Approach

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Parenting a severely disruptive child can be exhausting and demoralizing to the point where breaking the cycle of bad behaviour seems an impossible task. Happy Families offers a realistic, step-by-step, practical approach to tackling destructive behaviour that helps parents regain control and establish harmony within the family.Using hands-on techniques based on the principles of non-violent resistance, each chapter deals with a different stage of the process - from communicating to the child an unwavering determination that the situation will change and enlisting the support of family and friends, to taking positive action in a way that avoids escalation. General advice such as how to respond constructively and consistently to provocation is included throughout, and morale-boosting tips encourage flagging parents to persevere with the approach.Happy Families will empower despairing parents and caregivers who seek to contain, counter and positively re-direct the aggression they face from children in distress, resulting in deep-felt and lasting change.
Introduction: What is Non-Violent Resistance?; 1. Avoiding Escalation.; 2. The Declaration or Statement of Intent.; 3. The Sit-In.; 4. Going Public.; 5. Telephone Rounds.; 6. Linking.; 7. The Sit-Down Strike.; 8. Refusing Orders.; 9. Reconciliation.; 10. Summary: Empowerment and Readiness.; Case Study.; Non-Violent Resistance in Practice.
Happy Families... proposes a ""non-violent resistance"" approach that avoids escalation while making it quite clear that silence does not equal acceptance. Through techniques like sit-down strikes and calling everyone in your child's social circle, the approach allows parents to confront dangerous behavior without turning up the emotional volume or allowing the child to be in control. This process that requires a lot of patience, perseverance, and daring from parents who may be feeling embattled and overwhelmed themselves, but this slim guidebook does a good job in presenting the steps in a simple and straightforward way. You can read it quickly and start to think about how you'd put it into action.
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