Your Competent Child: Toward a New Paradigm in Parenting and Education

I'm still working on this book. I like it... and I agree with much of it (when your child has an issue, it's worth looking at what *you're* doing as your child's acting up is feedback to YOU, no matter what age your child is) but for some reason, I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around some of what is said. That said, I'm still working on the book and haven't given up on it, so there's something about it that's intriguing. I think what I would like more of is 'so if I agree with all of that, then what do I do on a practical level?' but he does say right in the book that we haven't entirely figured that part out yet.

100 % recommendation

I have the earlier edition and it is the best book I have read on parenting. It quickly reveals the false choice most people assume we have as parents as either permissive or authoritarian and shows a 3rd way based on respect. It is so obvious and simple but, with legacy habits in our heads from our own childhoods, can be hard to get used to. But it is so worth it when you see the effect on your kids as they bounce forward in their own self-confidence and self-autonomy. If you only read one book on being a parent, I recommend this.

This is NOT to rate the content of the book. In fact I am very glad I've come across it. The issue is that it's full of typos which is driving me mad. The attached photos are just from one page! Also the cover is printed on a very bad paper and it's gone completely misshaped. Can't believe they charge so much money for such a poorly issued book.

The spelling and editing is an absolute disgrace. It distracts from a rather interesting perspective. It is incomprehensible how such a poorly produced book is being sold.