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This audiobook reviews the deep concerns with using and overusing time-out. Time-out is very popular for home discipline and is part of many parenting training guides because it seems easy to use and quick to understand. But despite its commercial popularity, time out is really over-rated, very complicated with difficult children, and never teaches any new behavior.

This audiobook helps you correct a problem before it becomes a more serious problem. Lying is a common reaction from children at all ages but for different reasons. Lying is not a moral or ethical problem. It is a way for a child to protect himself or herself and not look insecure. This audiobook looks at lying differently and invites you to see it through different eyes.

This audiobook helps you prevent a serious misbehavior. The behavior of stealing. Taking things that belong to other people seems harmless to a child. A child crosses a fine line between sharing objects and possession of objects. In this audiobook, steps are offered to dismantle a child's temptation to steal objects for immediate gratification. It also helps you to understand the situations that are most at risk for stealing to occur.

Effects of Bad Parenting is an emergency first-aid kit for parents and professionals utterly baffled by today's unmotivated, disobedient, complacent, and free-spirited children. The audiobook responds to the accelerated epidemic of school apathy, college dropouts, college graduation delays, insensitivity, impulsivity, casual sexual practices with friends, and overprivileged kids. More than a recipe for cures, this guidebook carefully translates complicated psychopathology into straight forward, easy-to-understand language.