Customer Reviews
Hugely helpful, even with a preschooler 
2008-09-12
Timeless advice that saves a parent's sanity while preserving your little ones' integrity and self-esteem. Presents discipline in a positive manner and encourages parents to see the world through their children's eyes..if you can see a situation from someone else's point of view, it is much easier to understand and handle. Well, this teaches you to get down to your child's level. To work WITH your child rather than create adversarial relationships. Highly reccommended
Positive Parenting 
2008-05-21
He advocates showing children by our example how to be kind and gentle, and yet powerful too. The only draw back is this book is weak in the area of sexual identity. His first version of this book is not like that. I do not agree with everything in this book, but most of it is so true. This book helps me parent my children and myself much more positively.
Stellar advice, True Wisdom, Irreplaceable 2008-05-15
I can't say enough about how valuable this book is. If I could meet the author myself to get down on my knees and thank him, I would. He has given such wise advice about the importance of caring about children's feelings. He has taught me more effectively than anyone else in my life what it really means to respect other people. I try to keep his principles in mind every day when raising my three children, ages six, four and sixteen months. Demonstrating the fact that I care about their feelings has helped me tremendously in disciplining them. They are well-behaved and happy children (most of the time!) Excellent, superb. The wisdom is sound and deserves much more than a quick glance. The more time you invest in internalizing the principles, the more you will get out of it. I am forever indebted to Dr. Ginott!!
A parent's best friend 2008-05-09
Ginott's "Between Parent and Child" played an important role for my family as I reared my daughter in the 1960's and 1970's. It is a thoughtful book that affirms the dignity of the child and fosters the parents' understanding of child development. My daughter will have her first child this summer and I purchased this book for her. It is relevant today as it was 40 years ago.
Between Parent and Chile 2008-04-13
The book arrived in a timely manner and was in excellent condition. It was what I was hoping for.
Best Parenting Book I've Read 2008-02-21
Over the past thirty-five years,
Between Parent and Child has helped millions of parents around the world strengthen their relationships with their children. Written by renowned psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, this revolutionary book offered a straightforward prescription for empathetic yet disciplined child rearing and introduced new communication techniques that would change the way parents spoke with, and listened to, their children. Dr. Ginott’s innovative approach to parenting has influenced an entire generation of experts in the field, and now his methods can work for you, too.
In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family relationship specialist Dr. H. Wallace Goddard usher this bestselling classic into the new century while retaining the book’s positive message and Haim Ginott’s warm, accessible voice. Based on the theory that parenting is a skill that can be learned, this indispensable handbook will show you how to:
• Discipline without threats, bribes, sarcasm, and punishment
• Criticize without demeaning, praise without judging, and express anger without hurting
• Acknowledge rather than argue with children’s feelings, perceptions, and opinions
• Respond so that children will learn to trust and develop self-confidence
Wow... an eye-opener... 2008-02-16
This book was recommended to me by an elementary school counselor after a child in my son's school experienced violent death at the hands of her father; my son was having a very difficult time dealing with it. I was feeling so helpless and felt compelled to fix, fix, fix my child's pain. This book helped me truly understand that sometimes I need to be quiet and just listen. It gave me practical, ready-to-use words and phrases that encourage communication and allow for the parent to facilitate and guide, rather than moralize or give advice. Before my reading, my son said, "You keep trying to teach me lessons in this, Mom...." and I thought I was doing the right thing. Between Parent and Child had sections dealing exactly with this type of dialogue and how to work through difficult conversations without the lecture. IT WORKED for our immediate problem and continues to work. I am using its lessons in my marriage and at work and find that my communication overall has improved. Highly readable and thought-provoking.
Finally, something that works... 2008-02-08
The techniques in this book were miraculous in working with my son. Finally a dicipline method based on respect. It has been very helpful in dealing with more effective communication and difficult discussions with children and adults.
Thoughtful guide for interpersonal relationships 2008-01-18
I got this book for my husband, with an alterior motive since I wanted it for myself.:) I like books on child psychology, but this one is my favorite so far. The best thing about it is that it applies to all kinds of relationships. Ironically, it helped me communicate with my mother. In the book, it's a child who hurls "You don't love me!" as both a weapon to divert attention from the actual reason of the fight and to get an assurance that even an angry parent still loves him. The book suggests to answer that it's not a good time to discuss the feeling of love, but to talk about what really made the parent upset. Otherwise, just yelling "Of course I love you!" can only make a further impression that you really don't have any loving feelings (which you probably can't feel at the time of the fight). Believe it or not, it's my mother who uses that same "You don't love me!" trick. Anyway, you got to read it yourself.
ginott 2008-01-18
I'm not finished yet, but I can see that the principles underlying Ginott's discussion are sound and based on love and respect. For that reason, it ranks high on my list of parenting books. Principles matter more to me than words or actions and if I'm appropriately principle based then the "right" or best words and actions toward my children will follow. Great book!
