easy to love difficult to discipline by becky bailey

We are not perfect in this house, but you know what, it is helping. And I'm high strung and too easily upset. And so we've been trying these ideas out with a lot of success.This does mean he doesn't melt down. And then something else happened that made me try something else in the book. My chin hit the floor and I was speechless. And a couple of days ago I needed to get my son to do something - and I knew it would turn into a power struggle, so I decided to give the ideas a whirl. No one can do all of this! And this lady has really great ideas but they seem so impractical! But I kept reading (perhaps out of desperation) and it started to speak to me some more and then a little more. I just wish that side of him was the only one I have to deal with!Anyway, back to the book. I tell you this, because I feel it's only fair to show you both sides of him and not just the struggles we have had, because as much as he sometimes makes me want to run away screaming to not have to deal with another tantrum, he is at heart a kind and loving child. He is a difficult child to say the leastNow, allow me for one moment to also tell you - he laughs more than other child I have known. He was my hardest to get to go to sleep without crying and whining. Once he had his mind on doing something, there was nothing you could do. He whined more than I thought one child was capable of doing. He threw tantrums I had only heard about before. I often joke that I thought I was too good of a parent and God sent him to me to humble me.And humble me he did.

Cause you can't get three easy kids, I had already used up the easy genes LOL! And so I walked around thinking I was a great parent. Probably too easy - and that should have been my clue. Life, clearly was not that easy and I needed to forge my own path with my kids and do what felt right for us.With my girls, that was easy.

Anyway, I have read a few parenting books in my day, I have tried them out (after hearing other rave about them) and they have not worked for me, in my house, with my kids. Bailey (also from the list of books I got from ) has to be one of the first parenting books dealing with disciplining that has spoken to me in such deep and profound ways.Now, I also have to tell you, prior to this book I pretty much wrote off all parenting books (and yes, I did just write about a parenting book that I also thought was a good read - but that felt different because it wasn't a book about the day to day grind and trying to discipline your kids, ya know?). The book called - Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline by Becky A. I finished a few days ago what will be a life changing book in this house.

Easy to love difficult to discipline by becky bailey