The One Minute Mother

By Spencer Johnson and Candle Communications

Book Overview

This story begins where most mothers are and takes them to where they want to be. Bestselling author Spencer Johnson shares his world-renowned 'One Minute' secrets - three simple and easy-to-understand techniques that take little but yield great results. When you use what you learn in the story you will discover: How to become an effective disciplinarian. How to reach your own potential while helping your children to reach theirs. How to help your children's self-esteem by developing their sense of responsibility. How to enjoy one another more as a family. With this book, written by a pioneer in helping people to gain better health through better communications, a mother can care for her children with confidence and ease, enriching and strengthening the mother-child bond each day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688144047
• ISBN13: 9780688144043
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The One Minute Review

I like this book. Sure it may be cheesy and sometimes condescending and pedantic, but it is easy to read. What I like about this book is that it truly teaches parents how to parent in a way that helps children access an internalized sense of right and wrong. It seems like children today, because of our society's lack of social limits, have a shallow sense of right and wrong. There is a difference between not doing something because you will get caught and not doing something because you know that it is wrong. This technique helps parents communicate in a clear and effective manner what they feel about a situation and attempt to get the child to internalize it. In other words, it teaches parents to help the child become their own parent. I have used this series of books in my private practice to help clients learn to parent, as well as how to communicate with others. This book is well worth reading. Greg Custer, MS, LPC, MFTI

THE ONE MINUTE MOTHER

The BEST parenting book! Why struggle disciplining your children when you can teach them to do it themselves? It is so simple it's hard to believe it really works.

Suitable for parents of children above ten

This book is very suitable to parents of children above ten years, but as a parent to a three and four years old, I did not find it much helpful. How can I teach toddlers to sit down and write together our mutual goals and seek ways to achieve them!!I kept this book up in one of my shelves for future reference, I think I will benefit from it later.

Cheesy but great

Although this book is written in an obviously simple narrative way, it has some golden truths about parenting. I highly recommend it. Spencer Johnson must be a very, smart, kind man.

The Best Parenting Book I've Ever Read

This book is fantastic! I read a copy from the library last night, and today I feel I must have a copy of my own. I'm so excited about what these ideas will do for my family! I had heard of the "One Minute Reprimand" long ago, and loved the idea of reprimanding the child's behavior and not the child. By also including "One Minute Goal Setting" and "One Minute Praisings" this book presents a beautiful way for a family to live. Sometimes we think that our children automatically know how wonderful we think they are. They don't, and this book encourages you to tell them, while also not glossing over their misbehavior. I'm excited about this book! All my friends are going to hear about it!