Pick Up Your Socks . . . and Other Skills Growing Children Need!: A Practical Guide to Raising Responsible Children

by Elizabeth Crary

Book Overview

Responsibility is a skill you can teach. Hard to believe? Not with the no-nonsense advice in this classic book. For more than a decade, parents have been relying on Elizabeth Crary's step-by-step... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943990521
• ISBN13: 9780943990521
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Helpful tool for dedicated parents

This is, in my opinion, a well written and helpful book that offer practical solutions. It raises important issues such as allowance systems, effective communication skills, consequences and limits, contains helpful advice on teaching children problem solving skills, memory skills, makes point that every child is different and what worked with one may not work with his sibling! It will require an effort from the parents to develop the system, make the decisions and stick to them (this is the stage I am now on, so I cannot report on any progress yet). I hope that when I start implement the advise given in the book, it will help to eliminate a lot of pressure from the everyday family life.

I Highly Recommend This Book!

Elizabeth Crary really impressed me. This book was very well structured with content logically presented for parents to assist their children in developing skills and then developing self-motivation. She provides ample references to other authors for further reading as well.Our child is in pre-school. We have just about finished potty training, and have told him how proud we are when he makes. I learned in this book how important it is that we verbalize that we are proud of him and he should be proud of himself as well. Most of the material in the book is for children older than preschool but there is plenty here for preschool parents to think about. We will refer to this book for many years to come. I am definitely interested in reading more books by Elizabeth Crary. I highly recommend this book!

Sanity for Parents!

No parent wants to raise a child who is a slob, a couch potato and a brat. But how to help them grow from a toddler to a responsible teen is a daunting task. This book helps parents get a gameplan for teaching their children self-respect as well as respect for others. It also reduces frustration by helping you see what is realistic for different ages. With large doses of humor and many practical tips, this is a VERY helpful book.Your children's college roommates and future spouses will thank you... :)

great resource for parents who want to instill discipline

I recommend this book all the time to friends who complain about having lazy kids. My son's hardly perfect, but he's done his own laundry since he was 4! This book helps you figure out what to reasonably expect and how to get the whole family to participate (so that you don't have to nag). It's great--even if cleaning house isn't your life's focus. It has tons of information about learning styles, developmental stages, and so on.