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I was disappointed in this book. There is a little information that is useful that could be contained in a 2-3 page magazine article, but it is buried in a lot of repetitious fluff. Several things irritated me: 1) how he projects adult feelings onto children too young to think that way, as in the child wanting to watch the same TV show as peers--sorry, they are not thinking of it in terms of a "cultural experience"; 2) assuming that "natural consequences" is always practiced without any concern for mitigating circumstances--most parents would ask why a raincoat was left behind, and THEN do something, or not, depending on the answer; 3) the teenager missing dinner. Is he kidding? I don't know anyone who does that--the teen heats up his own leftovers; 4) his insistence that any form of "time-out" is actually "love-withdrawal". Good grief. The way he deals with tantrums (well, in his case, a "sit-down strike" by his child, hardly a "tantrum" judging from what I've seen in stores on occasion) by essentially waiting them out works for him because he apparently is self-employed and can make his own schedule--he probably does have lots of spare time. Many parents are not in his situation--they have appointments, are maybe shopping with two or more children at the same time, etc. Bottom line: read this book at the library first. This is the second book of his that I've read, and he seems to be long on complaining about the problem but short on real, workable solutions.