Managing Challenging Children

By Gerard Gordon

This is an easy to read yet authoritative book on behavioural management. It features an author who is experienced in special needs. It offers practical ideas and strategies. There is something for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1864003022
• ISBN13: 9781864003024
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Didax Educational Resources
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A must-have for every teacher and parent

As a teacher and parent I found this book invaluable. It should be given to each teacher upon graduation.It is helpful to parents too. This book is witty, easy to read and full of common sense advice on how to achieve the desired results in any situation (except potty training, which this book does not address). The most valuable element to this book is it teaches the adult how to achieve positive results while building up the child's self-esteem. It teaches the adult how to create a consistant, positive, loving environment that children naturally thrive in. With a few consistant steps on the adult's part, the children and the adult will gain peace within their environment and it teaches adults how to respect children without caving into them. I teach 2 1/2 - 6 year olds, mainstream to mildly special needs children and the stratagies in this book work beautifully.

If You're a parent or a teacher ? Read This

I've just finished reading Managing Challenging Children. I'm a teacher and a parent and I think Gerry Gordon has really given me something to think about. He has written a book that is really easy to read, but doesn't get carried away with silly anecdotes - he really sounds like he has "been there and done that". This book looks at the problems associated with raising/educating children. It asks us as parents or teachers not just to focus on the child's behaviour, but to look at the environment we provide and the behaviour examples we bring to the situation. He then gives us strategies to go and try out, and yes, they work. Perhaps the most important message I got from this book is that to create change in behaviour of others we have to work at it. Words aren't enough. We must use our actions, combined with our words to provide the environment where our children can grow to become people we are really proud of. I recommend this as a good read to anyone who deals with children and many of the suggestions are very suitable for our dealings with adults as well.