Parenting With Positive Behavior Support Summary

How does it feel like to have a child with difficult behavior? Is there any way(s) to control and change their difficult behaviors? If there is a solution, does the solution good enough to maintain good family relationship? All of these are the main questions that are being discussed in a book called Parenting with Positive Behavior Support: A practical guide to resolving your child’s difficult behavior written by Meme Hieneman, Karen Childs and Jane Sergay. The authors of this book give both theory and step-by-step practical elements to guide the parent toward identifying and resolving children’s difficult behavior predominantly by using and integrating Positive Behavior Support (PBS). The main thing the readers should know about this book is that the authors assume that the readers are

I believe that for most parents, it is not easy for them to handle it, especially for a new parent that did not have experience in handling these kinds of things. I strongly think that the book has achieved its goal, which is to help parents dealing with their child’s difficult behavior. Throughout the book, the authors keep reminding the parents to not lose hope and continue to believe that they can overcome and replace their children’s troubled behavior with a good one—this is good as it can give motivation to the parents. Also, I found that this book is really user-friendly as it provides step-by-step and easy-to-follow guidelines for parents to understand. Every steps and strategies are provided with examples to make it simpler and clear. I also realized that the authors do not use any jargons or words that used by particular profession that might be hard for a lot of people to understand. It is really good to not use jargon in this book as it makes this book easier to read and understand. It also may catch readers’ attraction and attention