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“Mine! Mine!!” Your first encounter with child rage can be a real shock—how can you explain to your little one that what he or she is feeling is jealousy, and how can you teach babies to cope with one of the most basic emotions in the human canon: one that it’s hard even for adults to deal with?
This handy book (one in a series) offers you a full range of ways to deal with your child’s jealous feelings, whether they arise out of sibling rivalry, problems with pets, or another cause. Packed with last straw tips to cover all the causes and results of jealousy, the information comes straight from parents who have been in your shoes.
Other Last Straw Strategies
Crying * Eating * Jealousy * Letting Go * Manners * Sleeping * Tantrums
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When your child just won’t play by the rules, turn to Last Straw Strategies. Each book in the series concentrates on one problem area, and offers 99 ideas to bring you back from the end of your rope. Hints, tips, and suggestions compiled by a hands-on mother of four—garnered from parents, grandparents, and friends—have been successfully road-tested on children to create this practical series. It covers the major bases of conflict with energy, wit, and compassion, something friendly to clutch at when all else has failed.
Michelle Kennedy, author and humor columnist, lives with her husband and four children on a farm in Chelsea, Vermont, where she is desperately trying to turn her black thumb into a green one.
About the Author:
Michelle Kennedy is currently raising four energetic kids while also writing a weekly parenting column, “Life Happens.” It appears in the Green Bay News Chronicle and is syndicated in other newspapers.
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