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Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days Paperback – April 1, 2012

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The book that took the parenting world by storm is now available in trade paper! Anyone who has dealt with parenting problems knows that it is no easy task to turn bad behavior around. Bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Kevin Leman is here to help.

Have a New Kid by Friday shows parents how to reverse negative behavior in their children--fast! With his signature wit and encouragement, Dr. Leman offers them hope and real, practical, doable strategies for regaining control and becoming the parents they always wanted to be. Focusing on changing a child's attitude, behavior, and character, this book contains chapters for each day of the week, as well as a special section with advice on everything from rolling eyes to sibling rivalry to talking back to punching walls--and much, much more. This helpful section of more than 100 specific topics is indexed, allowing parents to flip immediately to any areas of concern for witty, straightforward, and gutsy plans of action.
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Change your child's behavior--fast!

Want a kid without the attitude? Without the behavior that makes you slink away in the grocery store and pretend you're not the parent? A kid with character who isn't a character? If you're tired of defiant attitudes and power struggles with your little ankle-biters or the disrespectful hormone group, read this book and follow the simple principles, and you'll have a new kid by Friday. Guaranteed!

Have a New Kid by Friday is your 5-day action plan that really works! With his signature wit and commonsense psychology, internationally recognized family expert Dr. Kevin Leman reveals why your kids do what they do and what you can do about it--starting right now.

Anyone can do it. All it takes is you deciding to stand up and take charge. Want a great kid? Want to be a great parent? Then take the 5-day challenge. Someday your kid will thank you for it.

Special Feature: "Ask Dr. Leman"
Gutsy advice on over 100 of the hottest topics for parents, including bedtime battles, lying, argumentative attitudes, sibling rivalry, talking back, and many more.


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Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Birth Order Book, Have a New Husband by Friday, Have a New You by Friday, Have a New Teenager by Friday, and Making Children Mind without Losing Yours. He is former consulting psychologist for Good Morning America and is a frequent guest on national media, including Fox & Friends, Fox Good Day, Oprah, CNN's American Morning, The Today Show, The Early Show, The View, and Focus on the Family. He and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.

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Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker. Cohost of the extremely popular Have a New Kid by Friday podcast, he has made house calls through hundreds of radio and television programs, such as FOX & Friends, The View, FOX's The Morning Show, Today, Morning in America, The 700 Club, CBS's The Early Show, Janet Parshall, CNN, and Focus on the Family, and has served as a contributing family psychologist to Good Morning America. A bestselling and award-winning author, Dr. Leman has written more than 60 books, including The Birth Order Book and Have a New Kid by Friday. He is the founder of Leman Academy of Excellence, an award-winning group of classical charter schools located throughout Arizona and Colorado.Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0800732189
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Revell; Reprint edition (April 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780800732189
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0800732189
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.76 x 8.5 inches
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Dr. Kevin Leman, an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker, has taught and entertained audiences worldwide with his wit and commonsense psychology. The best-selling and award-winning author has made house calls for hundreds of radio and television programs, including "The View" with Barbara Walters, "The Today Show," "Oprah," CBS's "The Early Show," "Live with Regis Philbin," CNN's "American Morning," and "LIFE Today" with James Robison, and he has served as a contributing family psychologist to "Good Morning America." He is the founder and president of Couples of Promise, an organization designed and committed to helping couples remain happily married. Dr. Leman is also a charter faculty member of iQuestions.com. He has written over 30 best-selling books about marriage and family issues, including "The Birth Order Book" and "Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage." Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson. They have five children.

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Finey.I
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for parents
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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I purchased this book many years ago and recently purchased it for a relative who is having some parental issues with her teenager. I attribute the success of my parenting to this book.
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Diane Guay
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book recommend for any parent
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024
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Got this on a whim and reference it all the time. It helps with any issue you may be contending with regarding your kiddos.
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Matrixlover
5.0 out of 5 stars Overnight success
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2012
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I have 4.5 year old boy and girl twins and and a 21mo.old son. The advice in this book is so practical and makes sense so much it worked overnight for us. It did not take 5 years or even 5 days, really in just one night I was able to transform myself into a new parent. The book actually should have been named as: how to be a new parent by friday! Although I was familiar with some of the principles in this book from Dr.Phelan's 1-2-3 Magic but I have not been very successful implementing 1-2-3 magic because I could not get over falling into trap of anger after all especially when I'm tired. Sometimes silent anger sometimes yelling and nagging. What I am most surprised about that is that I am not an aggressive person with others. I am much more in control. I have a lot of mom friends who feel like me. I guess it's because we think we are patient enough after saying something 10 times to our kids then we feel we have the right to yell to get it done. Other times we are very affectionate. But I knew that my kids (in fact all kids) deserve better parents - who have auto-control and well managing. Dr Leman calls it an authoritative parent. I also knew if I did not take care of it now I might have more serious problems when they are teens and I would not even realize it was coming.

So a very simple idea helped me a lot to stop getting angry: Say it once. Turn your back. Walk away. Walking away to another room at that moment of disagreement with your kid really helps you stay calm. Then kids start chasing you but they do not get angry back at you because you are calm and you just let the consequences take care of it. The result is amazing. Kids respond to it very well. I am surprised how well they respond I admit. My older son likes screaming when he does not get what he wants. This morning we had an episode about what to wear. I picked maybe 5 different t-shirts and he did not want any of them but he insisted on the one that's dirty in the laundry. I could get carried away and end up forcing him to wear one of the clean ones. Instead I did not say anything, just went upstairs with a set of outfit for him. He came to upstairs with his underwear. I prepared a bowl of cereal of his favorite ones and told him that I will not be able to give it to him because he did not put his clothes on. Then I immediately left the kitchen, sort of like leaving the scene of potential power struggle and oh man it really helps staying calm. He started chasing me around the house! I seemed like paying no attention, like it's not a big deal. Then after whining for a short while he himself CHOSE to wear the clothes I brought upstairs. And that was it. Our morning has been great until I took him and his siblings to daycare. It was amazing.

I can go on and on about other suggestions in this book but I won't. Me and my husband are well educated business owners but we were having a hard time managing our approach to our children at times. This book helped us instantly. Period. I recommend it to every parent especially if you are a busy one like me who do not have time for long phsycological behavior analysis.
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Danielle, PhD
4.0 out of 5 stars Cliffnotes version of the book
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2009
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The audio version of the popular book is very much the cliff notes version. The first CD contains the main principles of the book and the remaining three CDs go through very specific suggestions on how to handle specific issues a parent may encounter with one or more children (like one child hurting a sibling to gain parental attention). The suggestions offered by Leman are highly practical and I agree with most of them. The one that surprised me though, as it is different than the rest of the tone of the book, is a suggestion for a quick spanking. That is NOT research based and goes against all current parenting research (and seemingly against much of Dr. Leman's own suggested principles). That said, if you want an overview of parenting suggestions that boil down to training yourself to be more consistent and an effective enforcer (practicing what you preach), this is an easy-to-listen to book of suggestions.
Pros:
-Not just "theory" or "research", but offers practical and implementable suggestions for parenting less-than-perfect kids (BTW, no one has perfect kids - or perfect parents for that matter)
-You can listen to it in the car on the way to pick up kids. It splits up easily into separate short listening episodes. I recommend listening to it without kids in the car as you can actually focus :)
Cons:
-It's not the WHOLE book, if you want to start at square one and implement the whole plan, get the regular book and allot the time to read it.
-If you have a strong education background, much of this resembles the effective classroom management techniques you may have learned in your education experience and/or degree
-The aforementioned suggestion to spank your child. I felt this undermined his authority, but if are a good selective listener, take the suggestions that work for you and ignore the one that suggests you spank.

Overall, I recommend this to parents whose children are starting to test them (anywhere from age 2+) and those that want more tools for the parenting tool belt as it does have a highly practical application. Like any parenting book, use your parenting judgment and be sure to balance any parenting advice with what you know is right for your own child.
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Brian B
5.0 out of 5 stars Tried and Time-tested Approaches that Work!
Reviewed in Canada on November 19, 2023
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I wish I had this years ago! Some of my approaches were good. Some would have been so much more effective if I had this book as a guide!

I highly recommend this book!
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Clear guidance to manage the strong willed child.
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Farmer karma
5.0 out of 5 stars Great practical help! This books gave me courage to face the teen years!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2009
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Loved the core principles that I repeat to myself like a mantra. B doesn't happen to till A gets done, etc. It's what we all know, but forget in the bussle of everyday life. Making the principles a priority really helped me nip adolescent stroppiness and cut childhood whining to a bare minimum.
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trapida
5.0 out of 5 stars Sehr empfehlenswert
Reviewed in Germany on May 10, 2009
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Letztes Jahr las ich Dreikurs' "Kinder fordern uns heraus", ein sehr hilfreiches Buch, das in unserer Familie einiges zum Positiven gewandelt hat. Jedoch habe ich oft mit Dreikurs Konzept der "natürlichen Folgen" gehadert, denn es gibt Situationen, wo die natürliche Folge, die das Kind sein negatives Verhalten spüren lassen soll, nicht offensichtlich ist, und man sich als Eltern dann doch allzuleicht auf einen Machtkampf einlässt. Damit räumt das neues Buch von Leman auf. Er verdeutlicht sehr anschaulich, wie Kinder lernen, ihre Eltern und deren Wünsche zu respektieren, wie man Kindern klare Grenzen setzt, sie zur Kooperation bewegt und wie wichtig es ist, konsequent zu sein. Man lernt, dass man kein schlechtes Gewissen haben muss, wenn man gelegentlich drastische Konsequenzen zieht. Bei uns und einigen unserer Freunde hat Lemans Buch wirklich durchschlagenden Erfolg, der etwas provokante Titel ist durchaus ernst zu nehmen. Eltern, die sich gelegentlich bei der Kindererziehung unsicher oder überfordert fühlen, mehrmals täglich in Machtkämpfe involviert sind und sich schon immer ein "Wundermittel" gewünscht haben, damit die Kinder endlich kooperieren, kann ich dieses Buch nur wärmstens empfehlen, Sie werden überrascht sein. Übrigens sind Lemans Methoden genauso auf Kleinkinder wie auf Teenager anwendbar.
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Iryna
5.0 out of 5 stars Must have in the library!
Reviewed in Canada on March 22, 2018
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Such a great book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is planning to have kids or already has them.

Being a parent is a full time job and we want to raise our kids the best we can and teach them the right staff. This book is broken down Into two parts: principles and all words of real life examples that it’s so easy to reference back to depending on what challenges you may be having with your kids. It’s so hard to remember everything especially in the heat of the moment, so it’s a perfect book to keep handy and use as a reference.

Highly recommend.

P.S. book arrived in the specified delivery period and in a good condition.
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