From the author of RaisingYour Spirited Child, the award-winning bestseller that has helped millions, a pioneering, research-based guide to help parents end power struggles and beginconnecting with their child. Does bedtime mean struggletime, with your child negotiating for "just another ten minutes"every single night? Do most school mornings end with your child in tears? Doesyour child ignore your repeated requests to get up and do their chores andhomework? Every family experiencespower struggles, but these daily tugs of war are not inevitable. Belovedparenting expert Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D. addresses the everyday challengesof disciplining children, while understanding the issues behind their behavior.In Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles, Dr. Mary offers uniqueapproaches to solving the daily, and often draining, power struggles betweenyou and your children. She views these conflicts as rich opportunities to teachyour children essential life skills such as howto calm themselves, to be assertive rather than aggressive, to solve problems, and to work cooperatively with you and others. In this book, you will find successful strategies for: - Understanding emotions - Managing intensity - Identifying triggers With Dr. Mary's effective guidance, you'll be ableto identify the trigger situations that set off the struggles and get to theroot of the emotions and needs of you and your child.