Smart Love, Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D.
Smart Love, Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D.
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Smart Love
The Compassionate Alternative to Discipline That Will Make You a Better Parent and Your Child a Better Person

Author: Martha Heineman Pieper, Ph.D., Willliam J. Pieper, M.D.

Narrator: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/14/2009


Synopsis

No wonder Smart Love has gotten media attention galore and was even recommended by Ann Landers. The smart love approach offers a new and better way to steer through the extremes of "tough love" and unbridled permissiveness. Parents and children alike will benefit from these innovative principles for raising happy and responsible adults. The good news is that no matter how unhappy or difficult children may be, it is not too late to create positive, loving relationships. Smart Love provides practical guidelines for using loving regulation to respond to a child's daily needs at each developmental stage. From infancy to adolescence, the authors show you how to appeal to children's strongest desire. The Piepers draw from decades of experience as parents and therapists. Their approach is based on extensive research into the nature of the child and the ingredients needed for healthy emotional development. With clarity and conviction, acclaimed narrators Suzanne Toren and George Guidall present the respected husband-wife therapist team's inspiring message.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on April 18, 2016

Wow was this book outdated. I had trouble muddling through some of the sentences in the book because they were so needlessly wordy. The "smart love" concept they keep refering to in the book is only vaguely described at the beginning of the book and no real "tools" are given. That being said, there......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on June 04, 2018

3.5 stars because the loving regulation piece is working wonders (sometimes) with my guy who is struggling the most right now. I appreciate a lot of aspects of this book: looking at life from a child's perspective, recognizing the righteous fallibility of children's all-powerful selves, and not expe......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on March 20, 2017

What I did take away from this was that I need to respond positively to my children, to let them know I love to help them, that they can count on me to take care of them because they are worth it. I was torn. I bought into some of what they posited, but not all of it. I didn't listen to the end thou......more

Goodreads review by Edita on May 19, 2019

Išmintinga meilė trumpai – tai tėvišku rūpesčiu ir jautrumu vaiko poreikiams paremta drausmės alternatyva. H. ir W. J. Pieper yra be galo dideli pozityvistai ir visa jų knyga paremta pozityviu požiūriu į vaikų ir tėvų santykius. Jie paneigia, jog vaikai iš prigimties yra nepaklusnūs ir sunkiai kontr......more

Goodreads review by Susan on June 05, 2015

I dunno. This book kind of threw me for a parenting loop. Its philosophy is that, if a child is misbehaving, he/she has "inner unhappiness." If a parent disciplines her, her unhappiness grows even greater. The authors promote nurture over nature 100%, even saying that a child's personality is created......more