The Good News About Bad Behavior

March 1, 2018
Journalist and parenting coach Lewis documents a crisis seen in children of all ages. Obedience is no longer our goal. We must tackle the defining challenge of our era? teaching our children how to self-regulate. In her first book, Lewis researches and explains how we got here and the ways that adults can help the kids in their lives improve through connection, communication, and capability. Between visits to a neuroscience lab and plenty of parenting-coaching sessions, Lewis proceeds to explain that the key to discipline is connection and empathy. Although the author's background is in journalism, and she approaches her writing as something other than a do-this-not-that manual, there is plenty of practical advice here. She tracks families, including her own, throughout the book to demonstrate how parents can improve, too. Readers will appreciate the lists of age-appropriate jobs and Top Takeaways and resource sections in the back of the book. The Good News about Bad Behavior is a great addition to public and academic library parenting collections.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)