# Happy Families

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- Book: [Happy Families](https://www.bookquiver.com/carmelite-avraham-krehwinkel/happy-families) ([Happy Families.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carmelite-avraham-krehwinkel/happy-families.md))
- Authors: [Carmelite Avraham-Krehwinkel](https://www.bookquiver.com/carmelite-avraham-krehwinkel)
- Publisher: jessica_kingsley_publishers
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-5700-305-8
- Published: 2010-05-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Parenting a severely disruptive child can be exhausting and demoralizing to the point where breaking the cycle of bad behaviour seems an impossible task. Happy Families offers a realistic, step-by-step, practical approach to tackling destructive behaviour that helps parents regain control and establish harmony within the family. Using hands-on techniques based on the principles of non-violent resistance, each chapter deals with a different stage of the process - from communicating to the child an unwavering determination that the situation will change and enlisting the support of family and friends, to taking positive action in a way that avoids escalation. General advice such as how to respond constructively and consistently to provocation is included throughout, and morale-boosting tips encourage flagging parents to persevere with the approach. Happy Families will empower despairing parents and caregivers who seek to contain, counter and positively re-direct the aggression they face from children in distress, resulting in deep-felt and lasting change.