Press

Picking Your Battles was reviewed in the August 2004 issue of BookPage.

 

Praise

“This delightfully written strategic guide is perfect for parents who would rather hug than fight.”

— Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Temple University
Author, Einstein Never Used Flashcards, Rodale Press
and How Babies Talk, Dutton/Penguin

“This...is an incredibly powerful book for parents because it speaks their language....it is a caring, sensitive book that stresses the need for people to think about their own feelings and their own experiences when dealing with their children. It is a must for all parents.”

— Dr. Paul Jay Fink, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine
Former President of the American Psychiatric Association

“What I like about this book is its positive tone and no-holds barred information about how to parent children so that they will develop their potential and learn structure. All parents will find this book immensely practical and useful. I highly recommend it.”

— Harville Hendrix, Ph. D.
author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples,
and co-author with Helen LaKelly Hunt of Giving the Love that Heals: A Guide for Parents

“Picking Your Battles...will help parents to be better informed and more likely to find parenting easier, more fun and more rewarding.”

— Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D.
Founder and Director, New York University Child Study Center,
Arnold and Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine

“Bonnie Maslin in Picking Your Battles takes knowledge and turns it into steps of effective wisdom. Children taught discipline by parents are thus helped to avoid the later much harsher discipline required when taught by life.”

— John E. Schowalter, M.D.
Albert J. Solnit Professor Emeritus, Yale University Child Study Center

“Dr. Maslin has designed a balancing act for child-rearing that is parent-friendly and child-sensitive. And now, these triumphant care-takers will be able to deliver to the world fully-functioning children who will become adults that are loving, mature, self-responsible, disciplined, and endowed with wisdom gained from winning strategies that abound in Bonnie's kidology concepts.”

— Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant
Psychologist, parent, advice columnist, ESSENCE MAGAZINE, author, The Best Kind of Loving 

“[C]ombines the practical with the analytical, making you understand what to do with developing children and why....No parent should miss this resource as a necessity and a comfort.”

— Janice Weinman, Ed.D.
President, Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.)
Formerly Executive Vice President, The College Board,
Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Education

“The book is marvelous. It’s funny and real. This is the first book I’ve read about parents and kids that tells it like it is and offers insights that you can really put to work in real life. It’s written with verve and wit, and I am going to recommend it to the families I work with.”

— Susanna Morgenthau, Family Therapist