Ignore It!

How Selectively Looking the Other Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction

By: Catherine Pearlman PhD LCSW

Narrated by: Christine Williams

This book teaches frustrated, stressed-out parents that selectively ignoring certain behaviors can actually inspire positive changes in their kids.

With all the whining, complaining, begging, and negotiating, parenting can seem more like a chore than a pleasure. Dr. Catherine Pearlman, syndicated columnist and one of America's leading parenting experts, has a simple yet revolutionary solution: Ignore it!

Dr. Pearlman's four-step process returns the joy to child-rearing. Combining highly effective strategies with time-tested approaches, she teaches parents when to selectively look the other way to withdraw reinforcement for undesirable behaviors. Too often we find ourselves bargaining, debating, arguing, and pleading with kids. Instead of improving their children's behavior, parents are ensuring that it will not only continue but often get worse. When children receive no attention or reward for misbehavior, they realize their ways of acting are ineffective and cease doing it. Using proven strategies supported by research, this book shows parents how to:

• Avoid engaging in a power struggle
• Stop using attention as a reward for misbehavior
• Use effective behavior modification techniques to diminish and often eliminate problem behaviors
• Overflowing with wisdom, tips, scenarios, frequently asked questions, and a lot of encouragement, Ignore It! is the parenting program that promises to return bliss to the lives of exasperated parents.

©2017 Catherine Pearlman, PhD LCSW (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

It works!

Really enjoy this approach and has allowed for me to easily employ the offered advice. It works!!

She refers to reference tables and worksheets - are these available alongside the audio book as download??

Eye opening and life changing

We started applying some of the practices advised in the book, and it has really changed the dynamics in our home. Everything just goes smoother and the tension has substantially decreased. It’s been transcending!

insightful

this was a insightful book about a particular way to improve kids behavior. it definitely added a new tool to my parenting tool box that is very power.

Ease

I loved it- simple easy to implement and remember. Theory based and rewarding. It’s already working by chapter 3.

Great book, awful narration

An incredibly practical guide for parents of young (and not so young) children. about 5 hours long so gets right to the point, which I appreciate. a nice addition to the modern parenting toolbox. absolutely awful choice of narrator...I found her fairy godmother sounding voice obnoxious beyond measure. I listen to a lot of audio books and this one is far my least favorite.